Research Catalog

Title

The transformation of foreign policy : drawing and managing boundaries from antiquity to the present / edited by Gunther Hellmann, Andreas Fahrmeir, and Miloš Vec.

Publication

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

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Additional Authors

• Hellmann, Gunther, 1960-
• Fahrmeir, Andreas
• Vec, Miloš

Description

viii, 304 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

The study of foreign policy is usually concerned with the interaction of states, and thus with governance structures which emerged either with the so-called 'Westphalian system' or in the course of the 18th century: diplomacy and international law. As a result, examining foreign policy in earlier periods involves conceptual and terminological difficulties, which echo current debates on 'post-national' foreign policy actors like the European Union or global cities. This volume argues that a novel understanding of what constitutes foreign policy may offer a way out of this problem. It considers foreign policy as the outcome of processes that make some boundaries different from others, and set those that separate communities in an internal space apart from those that mark foreignness. The creation of such boundaries, which can be observed at all times, designates specific actors - which can be, but do not have to be, 'states' - as capable of engaging in foreign policy. As such boundaries are likely to be contested, they are unlikely to provide either a single or a simple distinction between 'insides' and 'outsides'. In this view, multiple layers of foreign-policy actors with different characteristics appear less as a modern development and more as a perennial aspect of foreign policy. In a broad perspective stretching from early Greek polities to present-day global cities, the volume offers a theoretical and empirical presentation of this concept by political scientists, jurists, and historians.

Subject

• International relations > History
• Diplomacy
• International relations

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Call Number

JFE 16-10831

ISBN

• 9780198783862
• 0198783868

LCCN

2016930007

OCLC

935690541

Title

The transformation of foreign policy : drawing and managing boundaries from antiquity to the present / edited by Gunther Hellmann, Andreas Fahrmeir, and Miloš Vec.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Hellmann, Gunther, 1960- editor.

Fahrmeir, Andreas, editor.

Vec, Miloš, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 16-10831