Foreign Policy Change in Europe Since 1991

In the past three decades, the world has witnessed many rapid and invasive changes, and seems to be changing countries have adapted their foreign policies to these changes. Building on a clear typology of foreign policy change and a consistent theoretical framework, this book offers a comparative analysis of foreign policy change in Europe throughout the post-Cold War period. Along the lines of our analytical framework, country experts discuss how and why the further ever more rapidly in ways that seemed only imaginable in movies. This book investigates how European foreign policies of eleven European countries have changed over the past thirty years. This book hereby advances our understanding of the phenomenon of foreign policy change and identifies the most important drivers and inhibitors of change.

The first book to analyse foreign policy changes across a range of European countries in a systematic and comparative way Provides a unique opportunity to discern patterns in the dynamics of change trough systematic comparison Assesses the drivers and inhibitors of foreign policy change

Autorentext
Jeroen K. Joly is Lecturer in Geopolitics at Saint-Louis University Brussels and Associated Researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. His research focuses on the interplay between domestic and international politics and has been published in Political Communication, Cooperation and Conflict, and Foreign Policy Analysis.

Tim Haesebrouck is Researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. His research interests include military intervention, defense burden sharing and foreign policy analysis. His work has been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Foreign Policy Analysis, Journal of European Public Policy and European Political Science Review.

Inhalt
1 Introduction: Foreign Policy Change, Tim Haesebrouck and Jeroen K. Joly.- 2 Belgian Foreign Policy. In Foro Interno, Inferno?, Jeroen K. Joly and Tim Haesebrouck.- 3 Czech Foreign Policy After the Velvet Revolution, Zdenk Kí, Martin Chovaník and Odich Krpec.- 4 Danish Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change in the Post-Cold War Period, Henrik Larsen.- 5 Finnish Foreign Policy: Pragmatic Adjustment to a Changing World Order, Tapio Raunio.- 6 French Foreign Policy: Make France Great Again, Friederike Richter and Martial Foucault.-7 German Foreign Policy, Patrick A. Mello.- 8 Italian Foreign Policy: Still the Days Seem the Same?, Fabrizio Coticchia and Valerio Vignoli.- 9 Dutch Foreign Policy: Staying the Course Amid a Changing World, Niels van Willigen.- 10 Polish Foreign Policy: From 'Go To' Player to Territorial Defender, Laura Chappell.- 11 Spanish Foreign Policy: Navigating Global Shifts and Domestic Crises, Eduard Soler i Lecha and Esther Barbé.- 12 British Foreign Policy Since the End of the Cold War, Andrew M. Dorman.-13 Conclusion: Grasping Foreign Policy Change, Klaus Brummer and Kai Oppermann.