How is foreign policy made? Who makes it? To what conscious and
unconscious influences are policy-makers subject? What is
distinctive about the immensely complex process as it unfolds in
Britain? And what, therefore, is distinctive and characteristic
about Britain’s foreign policy today? Who in Britain, has the
decisive word? Why is the Foreign Office the king-pin of the
system? Why does Parliament count for so little? Does public
opinion count at all? Originally published in 1968, these are some
of the questions which this book considers in the course of a
tightly argued but very readable analysis. Some had been considered
on their own elsewhere, but this study represented the first
attempt by a contemporary political scientist to pull together, in
brief compass, all the relevant threads – including the
constitutional, the political, the institutional and the
sociological. It is done, moreover, on the basis of a sharp
assessment of the type of foreign policy problem that most notably
confronted Britain at the time. The author has been successively
journalist, official of the Israel Government, and university
lecturer in politics. Throughout, his special interests and
activities have been in the sphere of international affairs and it
was while teaching International Relations at the University of
Sussex that he wrote this book. He combines the experience of one
who has seen the policy being made from the inside with the
theoretical insight of the political scientist; he assesses with a
sympathetic but unemotional detachment the constraints on the
formation of British foreign policy.
General
| Imprint: |
Taylor & Francis
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Studies in Economics and Political Science |
| Release date: |
October 2023 |
| First published: |
1968 |
| Authors: |
David Vital
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 138mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
118 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-03-212519-0 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-03-212519-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781032125190 |
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