Suchergebnisse

1. Introduction -- 2. Critical Thinking Part One: The Limits of the Expressible -- 3. Critical Thinking Part Two: Escaping the Zeitgeist and Building an Intellectual Self-defence -- 4. Israel-Palestine Part One: Do States Have a "Right to Exist"? -- 5. Israel-Palestine Part Two: Australian Foreign Policy and the Israel-Palestine Conflict—Avoiding the Colonialist Narrative -- 6. Is There a Deep State? -- 7. United States Foreign Policy: Radical Islam and the West -- 8. The Vietnam War: Morality and History -- 9. Class Power in the United States and Australia.

This is the first systematic and critical analysis of the concept of national interest from the perspective of contemporary theories of International Relations, including realist, Marxist, anarchist, liberal, English School and constructivist perspectives. Scott Burchill explains that although commonly used in diplomacy, the national interest is a highly problematic concept and a poor guide to understanding the motivations of foreign policy.