Domestic Contexts and Foreign Policy

Abstract

The papers of this panel analyze the influence of domestic politics and national strategic choices on foreign policy (making) in various national and regional contexts, reaching from China over Russia to Europe and the US. They try to understand how political ideas, norms, role conceptions, and constitutional orders shape foreign policies in issue areas such as Middle East policies, inter-regional cooperation, or in interventionism. The papers are particularly interested in the way states tackle perceived security challenges under the impact of specific polities, political struggle, and its underlying ideational and normative frameworks, but they also investigate how intersubjective ideas delineate appropriate strategies and role conceptions in the first place.

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Everything Hits At Once: Eurasian Integration and Russia's Disparate Foreign Policies	View Paper Details
The Carter Administration’s Emergent Policy in the Middle East: Assessing Foreign Policy Change through an Emergent Change Approach	View Paper Details
Competing Roles and Conceptual Differences as an Impediment to Bilateral Relations: The Case of the Strategic Partnership of the European Union and China	View Paper Details
Re-evaluating French Parliamentary Rights in Interventions abroad after the Constitutional Change: A Step Change in Parliamentary Powers in Practice?	View Paper Details