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The National Interest in Question - Foreign Policy in Multicultural Societies (Paperback)
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The National Interest in Question - Foreign Policy in Multicultural Societies (Paperback)
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For three decades multiculturalism has been the focus of fierce
debates. At the same time Europeans have worried, at the national
level and at that of the European Union, about how to relate to a
world in which their influence has been steadily reducing. But the
two discussions, on society and on foreign policy, have rarely
intersected. The events of 11 September 2001 did shock the citizens
of Western countries into an awareness that international politics
could literally explode onto their home streets, and generated fear
and suspicion about and among minority groups. But the excessive
focus on terrorism and on Islam which followed hardly did justice
to the deeper processes of transnationally induced change which
were at work. This book attempts to go beyond the emotive political
debate to show how foreign policy and domestic society have been
becoming more entangled with each other for some time. It focuses
on the more established Member States of the European Union and the
varying paths which they have taken in coping with the new domestic
environment fostered by increased migration, ethnocultural
diversity, and transnational relations. It investigates the
contrasting approaches taken by the European states to what is
loosely called 'multiculturalism', and analyses their impact on the
interplay between foreign policy and domestic society, something
which is now a structural feature of political life. It concludes
with the argument that since domestic society is now taking on some
of the diversity associated with international relations,
governments can no longer assume a national consensus in their
relations with the outside world, let alone the steady
homogenisation of world society.
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