Title Partisan interventions : European party politics and peace enforcement in the Balkans / Brian C. Rathbun

Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 228 pages) Contents Contesting the national interest : political parties and international relations -- Partisan lenses and historical frames : ideology, experience, and foreign policy preferences -- A faraway place of which we know little? : the politics of humanitarian intervention in Great Britain -- Never again war? : the interparty and intraparty politics of normalization in Germany -- The French exception? : presidential prerogatives and the public and private politics of intervention -- European army, militarized Europe, or European Europe? : the domestic politics of a security and defense policy for the European Union -- Parting ways Summary Ideological differences among political parties result in consistently different understandings of the national interest, Brian C. Rathbun shows. These differences between parties are critical as major international events unfold. In the first comprehensive treatment of the effects of partisan politics in foreign affairs, Rathbun examines domestic party disagreements across the 1990s in Britain, France, and Germany regarding humanitarian interventions and the creation of a European Union security force. The different reactions of the left and the right in the Western European nations had, for example, profound implications for the resolution of conflicts in Bosnia and Kosovo. Rathbun argues that leftist parties, compared to their rightist counterparts, believe less in the efficacy of force, are more willing to rely on multilateral cooperation to realize their goals, and have a broader conception of the national interest that includes the promotion of human rights abroad. Cultural factors, such as a nation's unique history with the use of force, do not constrain partisan debate but rather make particular issues controversial and help parties resolve value conflicts. Partisan Interventions is based on interviews with dozens of senior party and government officials. Rathbun draws on the experiences of former foreign and defense ministers, heads of the armed services, ambassadors to the United Nations and NATO, and party spokespersons on foreign and defense policy Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Political parties -- European Union countries -- Influence Humanitarian intervention -- Balkan Peninsula Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Peace Peacekeeping forces -- Balkan Peninsula POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- Political Parties. Peace Humanitarian intervention Military participation -- European Peacekeeping forces Political parties -- Influence SUBJECT European Union countries -- Foreign relations -- Decision making Kosovo (Republic) -- History -- Civil War, 1998-1999 -- Participation, European Kosovo (Republic) -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073178 Subject Balkan Peninsula European Union countries Kosovo (Republic) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781501729621 1501729624

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