Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 260
Trim: 6¼ x 9¼
978-1-4422-2006-5 • Hardback • August 2013 • $143.00 • (£110.00)
978-1-4422-2007-2 • Paperback • August 2013 • $52.00 • (£40.00)
978-1-4422-2008-9 • eBook • August 2013 • $49.00 • (£38.00)
Laura Neack is professor of political science at Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Chapter 1: Introduction: The New Foreign Policy
Chapter 2: Rational Actors and National Interests
Chapter 3: Cognitive Misers and Distrusting Leaders
Chapter 4: Decision Units, Small Groups, and Autonomous Groups
Chapter 5: National Self-Image, Culture, and Domestic Institutions
Chapter 6: Domestic Politics
Chapter 7: Public Opinion and Media
Chapter 8: Great Powers in General, the United States Specifically
Chapter 9: Competitors, Rising Powers, and Allies
Chapter 10: Conclusion: A Nested Game with Many Players
This dense yet apprehensible volume is made more accessible via the use of extensive cases to clarify the practical application of scholarly tools. Brief outlines of the content of each chapter's main subject areas significantly enhance the book's utility. Recommended. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Choice Reviews
Students find Neack's writing, with her use of many real-world examples, very interesting and accessible. The book's coverage of foreign policy scholarship is comprehensive and up-to-date and nicely introduces key theoretical ideas from foreign policy analysis. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Juliet Kaarbo, University of Edinburgh
Very readable and interesting. Various vignettes are used to good advantage to illustrate multiple perspectives on foreign policy analysis. A nice flagship publication. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Ole R. Holsti, Duke University
A clear, balanced, and accessible text with no gratuitous jargon. A solid work. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Robert J. Beck, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
The New Foreign Policy is a well-written, well-organized undergraduate text which integrates theory and examples well and is congruent with the way in which many professors want to introduce foreign policy to their students. I recommend it. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Donald A. Sylvan, The Ohio State University
Given my location in an English-speaking university in the Middle East, I work very hard to find texts in English that do not alienate my students. Neack does a great job of teaching the theory behind foreign policy analysis and gives numerous and diverse examples in the process. (Previous Edition Praise)
— Jennifer Skulte-Ouaiss, Lebanese American University in Beirut
Organized into ten concise and accessible chapters, allowing instructors to assign complementary outside readings
Presents a broad survey of foreign policy studies using individual, state, and system-level models of foreign policy
Introduces students to a wide range of theories and concepts, giving undergraduates a broad understanding of foreign policy analysis as a field of study
Presents a broad array of case studies, both new and updated, making the conceptual material practical and accessible to students
Case studies include:
-how Angela Merkel’s operational code is revealed in her response to the Eurozone crisis
-how understanding the inner circle of Supreme Leader Khameini can lead to predictions about Iranian nuclear negotiations
-how institutional restraints maintain Japan’s anti-militarist national culture in the face of growing nationalism while Germany’s anti-militarist national culture evolves
-how domestic political pressures in Palestine and Israel create obstacles to peace
-how unipolarity has been used by American presidents, especially in U.S. relations with other major powers and competitors
-how the foreign policies of under-appreciated rising power Brazil and ambivalent rising power India have evolved