Foreign Policies of the Great and Emerging Powers, 1st edition

  • Remy Davison

Title overview

Foreign Policies of the Great and Emerging Powers is concerned primarily with the changing structure of the balance of power operating in contemporary international politics and focuses upon assessing the policy intentions and power capabilities of key actors within such a structure.

One of the key objectives of this text is to evaluate the factors and national interests that underpin policy-making in the major powers. It also addresses fundamental issues in international relations theory: the concept of power; national interests; geopolitical and geoeconomic factors; and the factors that determine foreign policy decision-making.

Table of contents

Part I: Introduction
1. Approaches to foreign policy 
2. Explaining the great and emerging powers’ foreign policies
 
Part II: The great powers
3. The United States: Hyperpower unleashed or incompetent superpower? 
4. Russia: Superpower in flux? 
5. The People’s Republic of China: Status quo or revisionist power?

Part III:The European powers 
6. Britain: European or transatlantic power? 
7. France: Multilateral or balancing power?
8. Germany: Economic giant, pacifist power?

Part IV: Emerging powers
9. Japan: An increasingly ‘normal’ power?
10. India: The non-aligned Power?
11. Iran: Regional power or regional threat?
12.I srael: Balancer or destabiliser?

Part V: Concluding comments
13. The great and emerging powers in international politics

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Published by Pearson (December 8th 2008) - Copyright © 2009