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ARTICLE PRESENTS AND CRITIQUES THE RECORD OF ISRAELI FOREIGN POLICY, 1967-73, AND FOCUSES ON DOMESTIC FACTORS IN THE FORMULATION AND GUIDANCE OF THAT POLICY. THE AUTHORS CONTENTION IS THAT ISRAELI FOREIGN IS PRIMARILY REACTIVE, GOVERNED BY AN ADMIXTURE OF MILITARY ACTIVISM AND DIPLOMATIC IMMOBILITY. PROBLEMS STEMMING FROM THE NECESSITY OF COALITION GOVERNMENTS ARE EXAMINED.

The Republic of China's Japan policy is a mixture of domestic politics & foreign policy. Domestic politics are more openly debated than foreign politics in China, because the latter is still strictly controlled with central decision making. However, domestic interests are affected by foreign policy. Thus, public opinion, with its economic & emotional aspects, has put pressure on foreign policy decisions &, in the last 20 years, has even intermittently threatened Sino-Japanese relations, eg, in the dispute over the Senkaku/Diaoyu Islands & Taiwan. The memory of Japanese aggression & hostilities lingers in the mass media & youth-oriented publications, in particular, & threats to Chinese security surface with increases in Japanese militarism. Positive economic interests offset these negative images. Recurring incidents continue to strain policy, but the balance is more positive than negative. M. Pflum

In this article, I show how Prime Minister Abe Shinzo has promoted two major national and international economic policies-Abenomics and Japan's involvement in the Trans-Pacific Partnership-by focusing on his administration's domestic political struggles. Both agendas become significant in the face of China's regional engagement, demonstrating the inextricable ties between international affairs and domestic politics, a combination essential for grasping the "Abe effect" in foreign policy. (Asian Perspect/GIGA)

Introduction : Policy paradigms, transnationalism, and domestic politics / Grace Skogstad and Vivien Schmidt -- Ideas and discourse in transformational political economic change in Europe / Vivien Schmidt -- Transnational policy paradigm change and conflict in the harmonization of vehicle safety and accounting standards / Tony Porter -- Constructing a transnational paradigm in the European Union : the case of GMO risk regulation / Grace Skogstad -- Same-sex unions legislation and policy paradigms : something borowed, yet something new / Kelly Kollman -- Normative contexts, domestic institutions, and the transformation of immigration policy paradigms in Canada and the United States / Triadafilos Triadafilopoulos -- Canadian refugee policy : understanding the role of international bureaucratic networks in domestic paradigm change / J.A. Sandy Irvine -- Institutional 'stickiness' and ideational resistance to paradigm change : Canada and early childhood education and care (ECEC) policy / Linda A. White

This article seeks to ground financial regulatory choices in domestic politics. Based on evidence from twenty-two industrialized countries, we argue that electoral rules—specifically, the extent to which they are centrifugal or centripetal—have a significant effect on whether the banks or their consumers pay for the security of the banking system. Moreover, despite the homogenizing effects of global financial integration, the political dynamics generated by these electoral rules continue to shape the nature and extent of prudential regulations that countries adopt in the place of banking cartels.