The Disordered Public and Private Motifs in Marching West Strategy in Ancient China: The Some Clues of Foreign Policy in 「Da Yuan Biography」and 「The Huns Biography」

2021 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32
Author(s):  
Dae Shik Youn
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Ancient China ◽  
Public And Private

When Public Opinion Does Not Shape Foreign Policy

2017 ◽  
pp. 105-127
Author(s):  
Scott Lucas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Public Opinion ◽  
Policy Making ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
The Public ◽  
The World ◽  
The Right

President Eisenhower easily swept to victory in 1956, defeating Adlai Stevenson, whom he had also beaten in 1952, despite crises and wars that had suddenly flared in Hungary and Egypt. When the events of 1956 are examined through public and private records, the president’s response to these crises appears to confirm his claim that he would not allow policy making to be hostage to the wishes of the public. Instead, he made clear time and again that he would proceed with what he thought was the “right” course for US interests, irrespective of the American public’s reaction to the policy or to his reelection campaign. At the same time, he was ready to invoke public opinion in the United States and throughout the world to try and bend other statesmen to his will.

Introduction

2014 ◽  
Vol 47 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 261-268 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tuomas Forsberg ◽  
Regina Heller ◽  
Reinhard Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Russian Foreign Policy ◽  
The West ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Introductory Article ◽  
International Status ◽  
Made In ◽  
Key Questions

The importance of status concerns on Russia’s foreign policy agenda has been increasingly observed. This preoccupation with status is particularly visible in Russia’s relations with the West. Although strong claims about status in Russian foreign policy are frequently made in public and private by researchers, journalists, politicians, diplomats and other commentators, such claims often lack any closer theoretical or empirical justification. The aim of this introductory article is, therefore, to outline the basic components that form the research agenda on status. Status, if properly examined, helps us understand not only Russian foreign policy, put also present-day international politics and its transformation in a broader sense. In a first part, we identify the theoretical voids concerning the study of international status. In a second part we outline the drivers and logic of status concerns, considering in particular identity theories, psychological approaches and existing research regarding emotions. The presented research agenda on status, derived from International Relations and related theories, provides a well-structured tool-box for investigating the link between status, identity and emotions in Russian foreign policy vis-à-vis the West. In a third part we present the key questions rose by the contributors to this Special Issue and summarize their main findings.

Public Policy and Foreign Policy Analysis

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Charillon
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Foreign Policy Analysis ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
Policy Studies ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Political Problem

As a transdisciplinary puzzle, between international relations and public policy, foreign policy analysis (FPA) owes much to the study of decision-making processes and its early pioneers (Richard Snyder, James Rosenau, Harold and Margaret Sprout . . . ). Formulated and implemented by state agents, foreign policy fully belongs to the field of public policy studies, whose approaches have proved relevant to analyze its formulation. Still, it remains singular for several reasons. In constant interdependence with extraterritorial and mostly unpredictable actors or events, it is more reactive (or at least less proactive) than most domestic policies. Vulnerable to various transnational linkages, foreign policy also leads the analyst to rethink several pillars of public policy studies, such as the role of public opinion, the nature of elites, or the feasibility of evaluation. Its implementation, in particular, depends on the leeway resulting from foreign processes initiated in remote states or societies. Because what is at stake is national identity, reputation, or status, the national interest, and war and peace, the possibility of nonrational, psychologically biased, or even passionate responses to a political problem is higher. The emergence of nonstate actors (nongovernmental organizations, companies, religious groups), substate entities (regions, federated states), and suprastate organizations in international politics is a compelling factor that urges us to rethink foreign policy as public policy. The fading boundaries between domestic and international dimensions, as well as between public and private strategies, have a deep impact on the analysis. The theorization and practice of new kinds of policy networks are likely to be at the heart of future research agendas, both in international relations and public policy studies.

Dispatch: A New Weekly Record of the U.S. State Department

1991 ◽  
Vol 85 (2) ◽  
pp. 383-384
Author(s):  
Colleen A. Lutz
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Central Europe ◽  
State Department ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Department Of State ◽  
Current Information ◽  
Public And Private Sector ◽  
The U.S

Dispatch, a new weekly record of the U.S. Department of State, compiles major foreign policy speeches and congressional testimony by senior U.S. officials, as well as treaty actions and ambassadorial appointments.Every week, Dispatch publishes the most current information on U.S. foreign policy. In addition to speeches and congressional testimony, Dispatch carries policy summaries, fact sheets and feature articles, plus updates on events in the Middle East and on public and private sector assistance to Eastern and Central Europe.

scholarly journals Denial and Rejection: International Law and Donald Trump’s Foreign Policy Agenda

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 28-76
Author(s):  
Shadi Alshdaifat
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
International Law ◽  
The United States ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Hard Power ◽  
Nation States ◽  
Transnational Actors ◽  
National Governments ◽  
Domestic Law ◽  
Trump Administration

Since Trump’s Administration took office, this elusory question has haunted most issues in the international law. So far, the Trump Administration has been in office for a little over forty-four months, a tumultuous period that has disrupted international law and international politics. Another looming question is whether the Trump Administration’s many initiatives will permanently change the nature of America’s foreign policy? In particular, this paper will discuss Trump’s foreign policy, since his emerging philosophy seems to be a general rejection of the Obama approach: not “engage-translate-leverage,” but rather, “disengage black hole-hard power.” Wherever possible, the Trump instinct seems to be to disengage-unilateralism or, as he calls it, “America First.”  The United States of America and Trump are sturdy actors in the making and unmaking of international law. But the basic idea underlying international law is that international law is no longer just for nation-states or national governments. What Jeremy Bentham once called “inter-national law”, the law between and among sovereign nations, has evolved into a hybrid body of international and domestic law developed by a large number of public and private transnational actors.

Maxims of Foreign Policy

Itinerario ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 62-79
Author(s):  
W.J. Boot
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Foreign Relations ◽  
East Asian ◽  
Modern Period ◽  
Cultural Sphere ◽  
Japanese Identity

In the pre-modern period, Japanese identity was articulated in contrast with China. It was, however, articulated in reference to criteria that were commonly accepted in the whole East-Asian cultural sphere; criteria, therefore, that were Chinese in origin.One of the fields in which Japan's conception of a Japanese identity was enacted was that of foreign relations, i.e. of Japan's relations with China, the various kingdoms in Korea, and from the second half of the sixteenth century onwards, with the Portuguese, Spaniards, Dutchmen, and the Kingdom of the Ryūkū.

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