Public Participation in Foreign Policy

Experts from academia, governments, think tanks, NGOs, trade unions, and business investigate whether the public should play a greater role in foreign policy making by analysing their current role in the Iraq war (USA), Post-Apartheid (South Africa), trade relations with China (New Zealand) and other cases.

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MARIA BARGH Lecturer of M?ori Studies at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand ANDREW BUTCHER Director of Research and Policy, Asia New Zealand Foundation PETER CONWAY Secretary of the New Zealand Council of Trade Unions MATT CRAWFORD Manager of the Trade Policy Liaison Unit with the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade KATE DEWES Coordinator of the South Island Regional Office of the Aotearoa/New Zealand Peace Foundation CAMERON DIVER Deputy Director of Legal Affairs for the South Province in New Caledonia ALUMITA DURUTALO Lecturer in Politics and International Affairs at the University of the South Pacific, Fiji OLE HOLSTI George V. Allen Professor of International Affairs in the Political Science Department, Duke University, USA ALASDAIR THOMPSON Chief Executive Officer of the Employers and Manufacturers Association (Northern), New Zealand JO-ANSIE VAN WYK Lecturer in International Politics in the Department of Political Sciences, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa

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PART I: POWER TO THE PEOPLE? Debating the Public's Role in Foreign Policy; J.Headley & J.-A.van Wyk Does the Public Want to Participate?; J.Headley & A.Reitzig PART II: PUBLIC PARTICIPATION IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE American Public Opinion and Foreign Policy After September 11: The Iraq War; O.R.Holsti Public Participation in Post-Apartheid South African Foreign Policy; J.-A.van Wyk PART III: PARTICIPATORY CHANNELS IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY Peace and Disarmament Activism; K.Dewes 'Being a Good Neighbour': New Zealand and Track Two Diplomacy in Southeast Asia; A.Butcher Public Input into Free Trade Negotiations: The New Zealand-China FTA; A.Thompson, P.Conway & M.Crawford PART IV: VOICES OF MINORITIES Rights and Sovereignty of Indigenous Peoples: Implications for Foreign Policy; M.Bargh Public Opinion in the Development of Foreign Policy in French Pacific Territories: The Example of New Caledonia; C.Diver Pacific Islands Diaspora Groups and Foreign Policy; A.Durutalo Conclusion: Some Reflections on Public Participation in Foreign Policy; J.Headley & J.Burton