1st Edition

Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and International Relations The case of Italy

By Elisabetta Brighi Copyright 2013
198 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

216 Pages 11 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book offers a re-examination of foreign policy, in its relation with domestic politics and international relations (IR). Bringing 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... Read more

Introduction  1. Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics and International Relations: A Strategic-Relational Analysis  2. Italian Foreign policy: The Liberal Age  3. Italian Foreign Policy: The Fascist ‘Ventennio’  4. Italian Foreign Policy: The ‘First Republic’  5. Italian Foreign Policy: The ‘Second Republic’  Conclusions

Biography

Elisabetta Brighi is a Lecturer in International Relations at the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge, UK.