Ideas and Foreign Policy : Beliefs, Institutions, and Political Change / Judith Goldstein, Robert O. Keohane.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Goldstein, Judith, Editor.

Keohane, Robert O., Editor.

Social Science Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Foreign Policy Studies.

Series:

Cornell Studies in Political Economy Series

Cornell Studies in Political Economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International Studies.

Local Subjects:

International Studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Do people's beliefs help to explain foreign policy decisions, or is political activity better understood as the self-interested behavior of key actors? The collaborative effort of a group of distinguished scholars, this volume breaks new ground in demonstrating how ideas can shape policy, even when actors are motivated by rational self-interest.After an introduction outlining a new framework for approaching the role of ideas in foreign policy making, well-crafted case studies test the approach. The function of ideas as "road maps" that reduce uncertainty is examined in chapters on human rights, decolonialization, the creation of socialist economies in China and Eastern Europe, and the postwar Anglo-American economic settlement. Discussions of parliamentary ideas in seventeenth-century England and of the Single European Act illustrate the role of ideas in resolving problems of coordination. The process by which ideas are institutionalized is further explored in chapters on the Peace of Westphalia and on German and Japanese efforts to cope with contemporary terrorism.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

Part I. Introduction and Intellectual History

1. Ideas and Foreign Policy: An Analytical Framework / Goldstein, Judith / Keohane, Robert O.

2. Ideas and the Social Sciences / Hall, John A.

Part II. Reducing Uncertainty: Ideas as Road Maps

3. Creating Yesterday's New World Order: Keynesian "New Thinking" and the Anglo-American Postwar Settlement / Ikenberry, G. John

4. Creating Socialist Economies: Stalinist Political Economy and the Impact of Ideas / Halpern, Nina P.

5. The Weight of Ideas in Decolonization: Normative Change in International Relations / Jackson, Robert H.

6. The Power of Principled Ideas: Human Rights Policies in the United States and Western Europe / Sikkink, Kathryn

Part III. Solving Coordination Problems: Ideas as Focal Points

7. Ideas, Interests, and Institutions: Constructing the European Community's Internal Market / Garrett, Geoffrey / Weingast, Barry R.

8. Structure and Ideology: Change in Parliament in Early Stuart England / Ferejohn, John

Part IV. The Institutionalization of Ideas

9.Westphalia and All That / Krasner, Stephen D.

10.Coping with Terrorism: Norms and Internal Security in Germany and Japan / Katzenstein, Peter J.

Index

Notes:

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ISBN:

9781501724992

1501724991

OCLC:

1129181178