Role Quests in the Post-Cold War Era: Foreign Policies in Transition

Предња корица
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 20. 3. 1997. - 336 страница
A state's articulation of its national role betrays its preferences and an image of the world, triggers expectations, and influences the definition of the situation and of available options. Extending Kal Holsti's early work on the usefulness of the concept of role, Role Quests in the Post-Cold War Era examines the nature, evolution, and origins of role conceptions, key aspects largely ignored in a literature obsessed with the quest for immediate relevance. For each country contributors present the major foreign policy debate that took place at the end of the Cold War and examine, through an analysis of major speeches, the relative weight of identity and international status in the definition of the national role. Uncovering the different roles that states claim for themselves allows reflection on the possibility of international cooperation in the maintenance of international order. This study helps assess the importance of identity in national role conceptions, identify potential conflicts arising from the clash of roles masquerading as interests, and clarifies existing contradictions in prevailing roles. Contributors include Caroline Alain, Onnig Beylérian, Christophe Canivet, Jean-René Chotard, André Donneur, Philippe G. Le Prestre, Paul Létourneau, Jacques Lévesque, Alexander Macleod, Marie-Elisabeth Räkel, Jean-François Thibeault, and Charles Thumerelle.

Из књиге

Садржај

1 Author Author Defining Foreign Policy Roles after the Cold War
3
Which Past for Which Future?
15
3 Articulating the New International Role of the United States during Previous Transitions 19161919 19431947
40
An Elusive Role Quest after the Cold War
65
A Great Power Despite Itself
88
To Be or Not to Be Normal?
111
The Straitjacket of New Freedom
131
Still Searching for Status?
161
A Reassertion of Its Role as a Middle Power
225
11 Change and Continuity in Foreign Policy Role Conceptions after the Cold War
251
Notes
263
References
271
Contributors
305
Index
307
Centre détudes des politiques étrangères et de sécurité Université du Québec à Montréal
317
Ауторска права

Role Conceptions after the Cold War
187

Друга издања - Прикажи све

Чести термини и фразе

Библиографски подаци