Culture and Foreign Policy / / ed. by Valerie M. Hudson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• MitwirkendeR: Abramson, Hillel,; Banerjee, Sanjoy,; Breuning, Marijke,; Chafetz, Glenn,; Dellios, Rosita,; Gaenslen, Fritz,; Grillot, Suzette,; Hudson, Valerie M.,; Katzenstein, Lawrence C.,; Lotz, Hellmut,; Van Tassell, Darin H.,; Zurovchak, John F.,
• HerausgeberIn: Hudson, Valerie M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2024]; ©1997
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (463 p.)

During the Cold War years, one could argue that the constraints of the bipolar rivalry dwarfed in large part the domestic idiosyncrasies of nations. Now, however, nations often define national interest in terms of particularistic domestic motivations and imperatives--a change that calls for systemic...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Culture and Foreign Policy: Developing a Research Agenda
• Part 1 Culture as the Organization of Meaning
• 2 The Cultural Logic of National Identity Formation: Contending Discourses in Late Colonial India
• 3 Change, Myth, and the Reunification of China
• 4 Myth and NAFTA: The Use of Core Values in U.S. Politics
• Part 2 Culture as Shared Value Preferences
• 5 Culture, History, Role: Belgian and Dutch Axioms and Foreign Assistance Policy
• 6 Cultural Influences on Foreign Policy Decisionmaking: Czech and Slovak Foreign Policy Organizations
• Part 3 Culture as Available Templates for Action
• 7 Culture and National Role Conceptions: Belarussian and Ukrainian Compliance with the Nuclear Nonproliferation Regime
• 8 "How May the World Be at Peace?": Idealism as Realism in Chinese Strategic Culture
• 9 Operational Code Evolution: How Central America Came to Be "Our Backyard" in U.S. Culture
• Part 4 Afterword
• 10 Advancing Cultural Explanations
• About the Authors
• Index
• About the Book