1. Introduction : contemporary Spanish foreign policy / Ramon Pacheco Pardo and David Garcia Cantalapiedra -- 2. Democratisation and professionalisation : security and defence policy in contemporary Spain / Carlos Navajas Zubeldia -- 3. The internationalisation of the Spanish economy / Neil Hughes -- 4. Spanish soft power and its structural (non-traditional) model of diplomacy / Alberto Priego Moreno -- 5. Spain and the European Union / Alicia Sorroza Blanco -- 6. Spanish foreign policy, the United States and soft bandwagoning / David Garcia Cantalapiedra -- 7. The recent history of Spain-Latin America relations / Anna Ayuso Pozo -- 8. Spain in the Mediterranean and the Middle East : the quest for security and status / Jordi Vaquer i Fanes -- 9. Spain and Sub-Saharan Africa : towards a strategic approach / Cristina Barrios Fernandez -- 10. Spain and Asia : towards a closer relationship / Ramon Pacheco Pardo.
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Michael Blake presents an argument about the moral foundations of foreign policy. He argues that the traditional idea of liberal equality can be interpreted so as to give moral guidance to policy leaders in understanding what they ought to seek internationally.
This thesis argues that Chinese foreign policy has two distinct and contradictory tracks of behaviour. One, a "peaceful development track", reflects China's desire to promote a peaceful international environment and project a view of China as a benign, constructive, and non-hegemonic rising power. China demonstrates this peaceful development track in its cooperative and constructive engagement with the international community, within established, global political and trade frameworks, and in resolving disputes peacefully. The other track, the "assertive self-interest track", is characterised by China's aggressive pursuit of raw self-interest, using its asymmetry of power to pressure others to accede to its will, and eschewing options of compromise, conciliation, or cooperation with other stakeholders. China's "assertive self-interest track" engenders suspicion about China's true intentions in light of its political, military, and economic rise. While these two tracks of Chinese foreign policy behaviour are contradictory they are also complementary as they have the same driver: to achieve the Chinese Government's primary goal of regime survival. For the Chinese Government, as for many governments around the world, regime survival is dependent upon economic growth which requires resource security to fuel that growth. The peaceful development track assists this goal by projecting an image of China as a peacefully rising power to prevent other countries taking action that would constrain China's rise. Through the peaceful development track of foreign policy, China also aims to promote an environment of peace and stability necessary for China's continued economic development. Concurrently, the assertive self-interest track assists China in achieving the resource security needed to fuel its economic development and thus to achieve its primary goal of regime survival. This thesis highlights the contradictory nature of Chinese foreign policy using three case studies, all with China's pursuit of resource security as the ...
Role of commercial interests in US foreign relations, in context of economic globalization and opening of new markets; outlook for the second Clinton administration.
Departing from an exposition of the diametrically exposed foreign policy aims of the Sukarno and Suharto governments, the article attempts to see Guided Democracy's foreign policy as shaped by the anti-colonial political socialization of the nationalist elite, the ideology of the "Indonesian Revolution", the domestic competition for power and the influences of the international system, rather than to follow the simple Western explanation of Sukarno as an anti-imperialist psychopath. The study focuses on his concept of the New Emerging Forces, the attempt to forge an international united front against the status quo and for a new world order beyond imperialism and capitalism. The failure of this venture is analyzed as the result of inherent contradictions within the strategy, as due to the weak capabilities of the alliance partners, and as a consequence of international counter-alignments. Finally an attempt is made to portray the mutual influences between the domestic policy of a transformation to the left and the foreign policy of confrontation under the Peking-Djakarta axis.
The complex dilemmas facing governments regarding the promotion of human rights are considered here. Contributors explore what an 'ethical foreign policy' means, then look at potential or actual instruments of ethical foreign policy-making; three case studies assess the difficulties raised by the incorporation of ethical considerations into foreign policy
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