Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and International Relations - 9781138946200

Taylor & Francis

Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and International RelationsThe case of Italy\nAuthor(s): Elisabetta Brighi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138946200, 978-1138946200\nSynopsis\nThis book offers a re-examination of foreign policy, in its relation with domestic politics and international relations (IR).\n\nBringing 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.