Pub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1163/21967415-09020008
Stefan A. Schirm
A stronger emphasis on domestic politics and national sovereignty has recently shaped international economic relations, for instance, in the United Kingdom and the United States. This trend weakened the liberal international economic order (lio) with its promotion of globalisation and multilateralism. Why have the UK and the US, which formerly spearheaded the liberal order, embraced nation-centred foreign economic policies (ncp) under the Trump and Johnson governments? I argue that domestic forces predominantly drove this shift, since a political de facto alignment of value-based societal ideas and material interests increasingly favoured national self-determination and the privileging of domestic groups. The negative consequences of the lio such as rising income inequality, job losses and a perceived heteronomy had strengthened societal ideas and interests that converged in support of ncp. I examine these arguments by applying the societal approach to governmental preference formation in case studies on Johnson’s Brexit policy and Trump’s trade policy towards China.
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Pub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1163/21967415-09020012
Christian Lequesne
{"title":"Niels Ringe, The Language of Politics. Multilingual Policy-Making in the European Union","authors":"Christian Lequesne","doi":"10.1163/21967415-09020012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-09020012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129431672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1163/21967415-09020009
Elena Sidorova
{"title":"Bruno Nassim Aboudrar, François Mairesse, Laurent Martin, Géopolitiques de la culture: l’artiste, le diplomate et entrepreneur","authors":"Elena Sidorova","doi":"10.1163/21967415-09020009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-09020009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131819226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1163/21967415-09020004
Ilen Madhavji
{"title":"Nancy Snow, Nicholas J. Cull (eds), Routledge Handbook of Public Diplomacy","authors":"Ilen Madhavji","doi":"10.1163/21967415-09020004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-09020004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134293011","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1163/21967415-09020010
Eduard Soler i Lecha
{"title":"Raffaella A. Del Sarto, Borderlands: Europe and the Mediterranean Middle East","authors":"Eduard Soler i Lecha","doi":"10.1163/21967415-09020010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-09020010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-08-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114396985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-08-24DOI: 10.1163/21967415-09020005
Peter Malcontent
This historical study assesses the determining factors behind the development of the Netherlands as one of Israel’s most faithful European allies in its conflict with the Palestinians. As such it wants to contribute to the academic debate on foreign policy Europeanisation that started two decades ago with the publication of Ben Tonra’s seminal study on The Europeanisation of National Foreign Policy. Comprehensive studies using primary sources of the EU’s individual member states’ policies towards the Israeli-Palestinian conflict continue to be scarce. This study about the Netherlands contributes to filling this gap. It first sets out why the Dutch government’s position has always been more pro-Israel compared to that of the EU by assessing the relative influences of the EU and the Netherlands’ national Parliament as external and internal foreign policy determinants. After having established the dominating role of Dutch Parliament the latter part of this article tries to explain what continues to motivate a right-wing majority in Dutch Parliament to protect the Dutch government’s traditional pro-Israel position against external influences from the European level.
这一历史研究评估了荷兰作为以色列与巴勒斯坦冲突中最忠实的欧洲盟友之一的发展背后的决定因素。因此,它希望为外交政策欧洲化的学术辩论做出贡献,这种辩论始于20年前本•托拉(Ben Tonra)发表的开创性研究《国家外交政策的欧洲化》(the europeanization of National foreign policy)。利用欧盟各成员国对巴以冲突政策的第一手资料进行的综合研究仍然很少。这项关于荷兰的研究有助于填补这一空白。它首先通过评估欧盟和荷兰国民议会作为外部和内部外交政策决定因素的相对影响,阐述了为什么荷兰政府的立场一直比欧盟更亲以色列。在确立了荷兰议会的主导地位之后,本文的后半部分试图解释是什么继续激励荷兰议会中的右翼多数派保护荷兰政府传统的亲以色列立场,不受来自欧洲层面的外部影响。
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Pub Date : 2022-04-13DOI: 10.1163/21967415-09010010
Giovanna De Maio
{"title":"Mara Morini, La Russia di Putin","authors":"Giovanna De Maio","doi":"10.1163/21967415-09010010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-09010010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"41 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121662143","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-13DOI: 10.1163/21967415-09010004
Benjamin Leffel
{"title":"Raffaele Marchetti, City Diplomacy: From City-States to Global Cities","authors":"Benjamin Leffel","doi":"10.1163/21967415-09010004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/21967415-09010004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":145597,"journal":{"name":"European Review of International Studies","volume":"140 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133610726","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-04-13DOI: 10.1163/21967415-09010014
Kyriakos Mikelis, Charalambos Tsardanidis
Drawing on Felix Grenier’s ‘Reflexive Studies on ir’ schema, this article offers a reconstruction of the search for a disciplinary identity in Greece, mainly through a combination of the geo-epistemic and historiographical perspectives. It begins with an overview of the field’s history and pre-history, followed by a section on the teaching and research framework and is then followed by a section emphasizing the state and status of theory. Since the 1980s, an increasing expansion in Greek ir has been signalled by a noticeable wave of departments devoted to international or regional studies as well as of research institutes. Thus, most of the relevant literature on ir is still focused on regional and thematic aspects of Greece’s foreign relations, with a fairly marginal theoretical impact. Despite theoretical arguments proposed by some Greek scholars on anarchy and sovereignty, a distinct ‘Greek/Hellenic’ school or approach of ir is hardly forthcoming.
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Pub Date : 2022-04-13DOI: 10.1163/21967415-09010008
L. Praxmarer
This paper investigates the perception of diplomats by local inhabitants in the diplomatic quarter of Bern, Switzerland, well known as a ‘diplomatic site’. Through 16 semi-structured interviews with residents of the quarter, it was found that diplomats are perceived as a distant, separate community characterised by a lack of interest and effort to integrate into the host environment. In lieu of significant interactions, the perception was largely defined by the material dimensions of the diplomatic site and a generally positive understanding of diplomats. It is argued that this ambivalent, non-elitist, perception in Bern is two-dimensional, consisting of the personal, daily, spatially rooted, social experience of the diplomatic site situated within a wider societal narrative on diplomats and diplomacy, which should be accounted for in public diplomacy efforts. Future research should focus on investigating perceptions of diplomats outside of the diplomatic quarter to elucidate said societal narrative.
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