Fear and the Making of Foreign Policy : : Europe and Beyond / / Raymond Taras.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Taras, Raymond,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations 15 B/W tables

Can a society's fear of foreigners engender xenophobic foreign policy?GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup('ISBN:9780748699018','ISBN:9780748699025','ISBN:9780748699032','ISBN:9780748699049');This is a book about conflicts and fears: how domestic reasons are drawing countries in Europe into international events. There has been much research into why the U.S. and U.K. militaries intervened in Iraq, Afghanistan, and other conflict zones. But what explains France's newfound international activism, which is taking its military to Libya, Mali and deeper into Africa? Why has Poland become deeply engaged in Ukraine's politics? Why is Sweden, which has not fought a war since 1814, concerned with the fierce internal wars in Iraq and Syria? Can these actions be explained as countries simply protecting their national interests, or could domestic xenophobia also be playing a part?In Fear and the Making of Foreign Policy, Raymond Taras explains the causal mechanisms propelling these three EU states to become engaged in outside conflicts and tells the story of when and why xenophobia at home is converted into xenophobia abroad.Key FeaturesChapter-length case studies of France, Poland and Sweden, with counterpoints from the USA, China, Iran and Turkey, investigate the role that human phobias play in international politicsExamines states in Europe and beyond that have been marked by contrasting historical pathways, and whose policy responses to 'strangers' at home and to 'friends' or 'foes' abroad are dramatically dissimilarAddresses the phenomena of social fears, moral panic and declinism of the West through the prism of xenophobic attitudes and their often underestimated consequences"

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One. Fear and suspicion in contemporary politics -- Chapter Two. Reconnecting culture with foreign policy -- Chapter three. Reflections on designing research for the study of fear and foreign policy -- Chapter four. French Muslims and France's foreign policy -- Chapter Five. Poland's fixation with Russia: fear or reason? -- Chapter Six. Sweden: the limits of humanitarianism at home and abroad -- Chapter Seven. Summing up -- Select bibliography -- Index