Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and International Relations

The case of Italy
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-1-138-94620-0
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 336 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics

This book offers a re-examination of foreign policy, in its relation with domestic politics and international relations (IR).

Bringing together a vast body of literature from IR, foreign policy analysis, comparative politics and public policy, this book systematically reconceptualises foreign policy as a dialectic, produced by the interplay of context, strategy and discourse. It argues that foreign policy defies easy understandings and necessitates a complex framework of analysis, introducing the ‘Strategic-Relational Model’, as conceptualised in critical realism, for the first time to the field of foreign policy analysis. Combining a comprehensive investigation of the last century of Italian foreign policy with an exploration of a key theoretical issue within the field of foreign policy analysis and IR, this book analyses key episodes within Italian foreign policy, including Italy’s Cold War alliance politics, colonial interventions, fascist foreign policy and Italy’s participation in the wars of Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. It provides a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the long-term historical trajectory of Italian foreign policy, from the Liberal age to the ‘Second Republic’, including all four governments of Silvio Berlusconi.

Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and International Relations will be of interest to students and scholars of International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis and Italian politics.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brighi, Elisabetta

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1. Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and International Relations: A Strategic-Relational Analysis 2. Italian Foreign policy: The Liberal Age 3. Italian Foreign Policy: The Fascist ‘Ventennio’ 4. Italian Foreign Policy: The ‘First Republic’ 5. Italian Foreign Policy: The ‘Second Republic’ Conclusions

Über Autor(innen)

Elisabetta Brighi is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.