| Description |
xi, 228 pages ; 24 cm |
| 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."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Political parties -- European Union countries -- Influence.
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Humanitarian intervention -- Balkan Peninsula.
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Yugoslav War, 1991-1995 -- Peace.
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Peacekeeping forces -- Balkan Peninsula.
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Kosovo War, 1998-1999 -- Participation, European.
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| SUBJECT |
European Union countries -- Foreign relations http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007009617 -- Decision making.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99005493
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| LC no. |
2004012142 |
| ISBN |
0801442559 alkaline paper |
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