Raymond Taras

Fear and the Making of Foreign Policy (eBook, ePUB)

Europe and Beyond

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This is a book about conflicts and fears: how domestic reasons are drawing countries in Europe into international events. There has been much research into why the U.S. and U.K. militaries intervened in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflict zones. But what explains France's newfound international activism, which is taking its military to Libya, Mali and deeper into Africa? Why has Poland become deeply engaged in Ukraine's politics? Why is Sweden, which has not fought a war since 1814, concerned with the fierce internal wars in Iraq and Syria? Can these actions be explained as countries simply protecting their national interests, or could domestic xenophobia also be playing a part? In 'Fear and the Making of Foreign Policy', Raymond Taras explains the causal mechanisms propelling these three EU states to become engaged in outside conflicts and tells the story of when and why xenophobia at home is converted into xenophobia abroad.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. März 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780748699049
• Artikelnr.: 44755016

Autorenporträt

Raymond Taras is Professor of Political Science at Tulane University. Raymond Taras is Fulbright Distinguished Chair at the Australian National University in Canberra and Professor of Political Science at Tulane University in New Orleans.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. Fear and suspicion in contemporary politics: citizens, strangers, elites
2. Reconnecting culture with foreign policy
3. Reflections on designing research for the study of fear and foreign policy
4. French Muslims and France's foreign policy
5. Poland's Fixation with Russia: Fear or Reason?
6. Sweden: the limits of humanitarianism at home and abroad
7. Summing up
Select bibliography
Index.