Party Systems and Foreign Policy Change in Liberal Democracies

Cleavages, Ideas, Competition
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-44463-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 208 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 472 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Foreign Policy Analysis

How do political parties affect foreign policy? This book answers this question by exploring the role of party politics as source of foreign policy change in liberal democracies.

The book shifts the focus from individual political parties to party systems as the context in which parties’ ideologies receive precise content and their preferences are formed. The central claim is that foreign policy change arises from within transformed discursive contexts of party competition, when a new language of politics that constitutes anew parties’ self-understanding of what they stand for and compete over emerges in a party system. By comparing cases of contested foreign policy change, the book shows how such transformations in party competition determine whether and when international pressures on a state will translate into decisions to institute foreign policy change and what degree of change will be ultimately implemented.

With a novel framework which bridges concepts of international relations and comparative politics, the book will be of interest to researchers and students in the areas of international relations theory, foreign policy analysis and comparative politics, and generally to anyone wanting to understand how and when parties, elections and voters contribute to international change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chryssogelos, Angelos

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Politische Parteien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction Chapter 1 – A New Framework for Understanding Party-Based Foreign Policy Change Chapter 2 – West Germany 1969-74: The Social-Liberal Coalition and Ostpolitik Chapter 3 – Canada 1984-1993: Revolt of The Peripheries and Free Trade with The US Chapter 4 – Greece 1993-2000: Rapprochement with Turkey and Renewal of a Two-Party System Chapter 5 – Empirical and Conceptual Implications of the Argument Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Angelos Chryssogelos is lecturer (assistant professor) in politics and international relations at the School of Social Sciences, London Metropolitan University and a Jean Monnet Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies of the European University Institute.