This book analyses the salience of foreign and security policy issues to domestic actors, its role in the analysis of international politics and its consequences for foreign policy decision-making. It provides a comprehensive and systematic overview of issue salience and develops the state of the art. Beginning with a chapter on the concept of issue salience and its role in analysing international politics, it has a strong comparative framework and focuses on different domestic actors: the general public; political parties/parliaments; and the media. It features empirical studies drawn from countries in Western Europe and North America and addresses the salience of different issue areas in three key areas of international politics: European Integration Foreign and Security Policy Transatlantic Relations Finally the book offers critical appraisals of the theoretical underpinnings of the concept of issue salience and the methods for measuring it. This volume makes an important contribution to scholarly debates on the role of public opinion in foreign affairs and on the prospects of parliamentary control of foreign and security policy. It will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, international relations and foreign policy. Kai Oppermann is Assistant Professor at the Institute for Political Science and European Affairs, University of Cologne, Germany and the Managing Editor of Zeitschrift fur Aussen- und Sicherheitspolitik. Dr. Henrike Viehrig is Assistant Professor and Chair of International Politics and Foreign Policy at the University of Cologne, Germany.

The collection brings together scholars from Public Policy and Foreign Policy to address the theme of policy fiascos. So far research on failure and fiascos in both Public Policy and Foreign Policy has existed independent of each other with very little communication between the two sub-disciplines. The contributions aim to bridge this divide and bring the two sides into a dialogue on some of the central issues in the study of fiascos including how to define, identify and measure policy failure (and success); the social and political contestation about what counts as policy fiascos; the causes of policy fiascos and their consequences; the attribution of blame; as well as processes of learning from fiascos. A common theme of the collection is to explore different epistemological and methodological approaches to studying policy fiascos. This book will appeal to scholars and practitioners interested in policy failures and fiascos both within and among states and other international actors. It was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration. By starting out from a broad concept of mistakes as "something [considered to have] gone wrong" the edited volume enables comparisons of various kinds of mistakes from a range of analytical perspectives, including objectivist and interpretivist approaches, in order to draw out answers to the following guiding questions: * How does one identify and research a mistake? * Why do mistakes happen? * How are actors made responsible? * When and how do actors learn from mistakes? This book will be of great interest to scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as practitioners in International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Security Studies, International Political Economy, and Diplomatic History.

This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration. By starting out from a broad concept of mistakes as "something [considered to have] gone wrong" the edited volume enables comparisons of various kinds of mistakes from a range of analytical perspectives, including objectivist and interpretivist approaches, in order to draw out answers to the following guiding questions: * How does one identify and research a mistake? * Why do mistakes happen? * How are actors made responsible? * When and how do actors learn from mistakes? This book will be of great interest to scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as practitioners in International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Security Studies, International Political Economy, and Diplomatic History.

This book examines how foreign policy analysis can be enriched by 'domestic realm' public policy approaches, concepts and theories. Starting out from the observation that foreign policy has in many ways become more similar to (and intertwined with) 'domestic' public policies, it bridges the divide that still persists between the two fields. The book includes chapters by leading experts in their fields on arguably the most important public policy approaches, including, for example, multiple streams, advocacy coalition, punctuated equilibrium and veto player approaches. The chapters explore how the approaches can be adapted and transferred to the study of foreign policy and point to the challenges this entails. By establishing a critical dialogue between approaches in public policy and research on foreign policy, the main contribution of the book is to broaden the available theoretical 'toolkit' in foreign policy analysis. -- .

The collection brings together scholars from Public Policy and Foreign Policy to address the theme of policy fiascos. So far research on failure and fiascos in both Public Policy and Foreign Policy has existed independent of each other with very little communication between the two sub-disciplines. The contributions aim to bridge this divide and bring the two sides into a dialogue on some of the central issues in the study of fiascos including how to define, identify and measure policy failure (and success); the social and political contestation about what counts as policy fiascos; the causes of policy fiascos and their consequences; the attribution of blame; as well as processes of learning from fiascos. A common theme of the collection is to explore different epistemological and methodological approaches to studying policy fiascos. This book will appeal to scholars and practitioners interested in policy failures and fiascos both within and among states and other international actors. It was previously published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

This book examines how foreign policy analysis can be enriched by 'domestic realm' public policy approaches, concepts and theories. Starting out from the observation that foreign policy has in many ways become more similar to (and intertwined with) 'domestic' public policies, it bridges the divide that still persists between the two fields. The book includes chapters by leading experts in their fields on arguably the most important public policy approaches, including, for example, multiple streams, advocacy coalition, punctuated equilibrium and veto player approaches. The chapters explore how the approaches can be adapted and transferred to the study of foreign policy and point to the challenges this entails. By establishing a critical dialogue between approaches in public policy and research on foreign policy, the main contribution of the book is to broaden the available theoretical 'toolkit' in foreign policy analysis. -- .

Die Auswirkungen internationaler Krisen und aussenpolitischer Prozesse auf die politischen, okonomischen und sozialen Entwicklungen in Deutschland sind seit dem Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts und der Wiedervereinigung enorm gestiegen. Ein produktiver Streit um die Ausrichtung deutscher Aussenpolitik, der ihrer gewachsenen Bedeutung gerecht wird, verlangt jedoch zunachst eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme. Wo steht die deutsche Aussenpolitik zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts? Das ist die leitende Frage fur diesen Band. Auf den wichtigsten Politikfeldern analysiert er in allen drei Sachbereichen: Sicherheit, Wohlfahrt, Institutionen und Normen, unter welchen internationalen und innenpolitischen Bedingungen die deutsche Aussenpolitik agiert und welche Ziele sie verfolgt. Fur die zweite Auflage wurde der Band vollstandig uberarbeitet, erweitert und aktualisi

Die Auswirkungen internationaler Krisen und aussenpolitischer Prozesse auf die politischen, oekonomischen und sozialen Entwicklungen in Deutschland sind seit dem Ende des Ost-West-Konflikts und der Wiedervereinigung enorm gestiegen. Ein produktiver Streit um die Ausrichtung deutscher Aussenpolitik, der ihrer gewachsenen Bedeutung gerecht wird, verlangt jedoch zunachst eine umfassende Bestandsaufnahme. Wo steht die deutsche Aussenpolitik zu Beginn des 21. Jahrhunderts? Das ist die leitende Frage fur diesen Band. Auf den wichtigsten Politikfeldern analysiert er in allen drei Sachbereichen: Sicherheit, Wohlfahrt, Institutionen und Normen, unter welchen internationalen und innenpolitischen Bedingungen die deutsche Aussenpolitik agiert und welche Ziele sie verfolgt. Fur die zweite Auflage wurde der Band vollstandig uberarbeitet, erweitert und aktualisiert.

Nach dem Ende der Ost-West-Konfrontation und dem Wegfall der gemeinsamen Bedrohung durch die Sowjetunion hat sich das Konfliktpotential zwischen Europa und den USA deutlich erhoht. Seither haben die transatlantischen Beziehungen extreme Hohen und Tiefen erlebt: Auf die breite Welle der Solidarisierung mit den Vereinigten Staaten in Europa nach dem 11. September 2001 folgten mit den Auseinandersetzungen uber den Irakkrieg schon bald die heftigsten Erschutterungen seit mehr als funf Jahrzehnten. Dennoch bilden die transatlantischen Beziehungen unverandert den Kern der internationalen Ordnung. In allen Sachbereichen der Politik: Sicherheit, Wohlfahrt und Herrschaft ist das transatlantische Verhaltnis zugleich von Kooperation und Konflikt gepragt. Der vorliegende Band analysiert dieses komplexe Beziehungsgeflecht auf den Feldern der ausseren und inneren Sicherheit, der Wirtschaft und der Offentlichkeit. Er bietet somit eine umfassende und aktuelle Darstellung der transatlantischen Beziehungen der Gegenwart.