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China and the responsibility of power / Yongjin Zhang and Greg Austin -- Chinese power and the idea of a responsible state / Rosemary Foot -- Power and responsibility in China's international relations / Gerald Chan -- China's power: searching for stable domestic foundations / Greg Austin -- The PLA, the CCP and the formulation of Chinese defence and foreign policy / You Ji -- China's participation in international organisations / Ann Kent -- China's diplomacy in North and Northeast Asia: norms and practice / Stuart Harris -- Power, responsibility and sovreignty: China's policy towards Taiwan's bid for a UN seat / Baogang He -- China and arms control: a learning process / Gary Klintworth -- China's security problematique: critical reflections / Yongjin Zhang.

This book offers in-depth analysis of the reasons behind Russia's policy toward the construction of a U.S ballistic missile defense system in Europe. It examines Russia's policymaking dynamics and argues that, contrary to Moscow's official claims, Russia's objections are based on a combination of security concerns and political calculations.

"In Mission Failure, Mandelbaum argues that, in the past 25 years, U.S. foreign policy has undergone a significant shift. Historically, U.S. foreign policy was oriented primarily toward threat reduction, but the U.S. military has turned in recent years to missions that are largely humanitarian and socio-political. Mandelbaum argues that ideologically-driven foreign policy--that which seeks to reconstruct societies along Western lines--generally leads to mission failure"--

Examines how the provision of military security through technology and national wealth has been a key element of state policy since 1945, implications for relations with the US, and for regional and international security.

In the discussion on parliamentarizing foreign policy making in Finland the role of political parties and public opinion has not been essential and central topics. The aim of this article is therefore to penetrate deeper into the process of foreign policy making and illuminate developments on the level of political parties and public opinion which are quite crucial for the foreign policy of the country. As well as an empirical descrip tion of the role of political parties and public opinion there is also an effort to open up for more general theoretical discussion how to relate to this level of foreign policy making. It is argued that public opinion can be regarded as a basic resource of the foreign policy of a small country. Innovation on a theoretical level might well be the key to further developments reforming the foreign policy making system.

Public opinion is central to representation, democratic accountability, & decision making. Yet, the public was long believed to be relatively uninterested in foreign affairs, absent an immediate threat to safety & welfare. It had become conventional to say that "voting ends at water's edge." We start the examination of the scholarly understanding of the role of foreign affairs in public opinion & voting at that low point of view. Much subsequent development saw an increasing degree of holding & using of attitudes & beliefs about foreign affairs among the public. Moving in parallel with developments in political psychology, theoretical & methodological advances led to an increasingly widely shared view that the public holds reasonably sensible & nuanced views, that these help shape their political behaviors, & that these, in turn, help shape & constrain foreign policy making. References. Adapted from the source document.