Social Construction of Foreign Policy: Identities and Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 and 1999
By Ted Hopf.
Description
In this deeply researched book Ted Hopf challenges contemporary theorizing about international relations. He advances what he believes is a commonsensical notion: a state's domestic identity has an enormous effect on its international policies. Hopf argues that foreign policy elites are inextricably bound to their own societies; in order to understand other states, they must first understand themselves. To comprehend Russian and Soviet foreign policy, "it is just as important to read what is being consumed on the Moscow subway as it is to conduct research in the Foreign Ministry a...
ISBN(s)
0801487919, 9780801487910
