Why Nations Realign: Foreign Policy Restructuring in the Postwar World

By Kal Holsti

Book Overview

This book, originally published in 1982, analyzes the process of radical foreign policy change - how states restructure their foreign relations, and why they do so. Using a common analystical framework, the authors examine Bhutan, Burma, Canada, Child, China and Tanzania. They distinguish between piecemeal foreign policy change and adaptation, and the fundamental re-ordering of foreign policy. Their analysis underlines the extent to which non-military and sometimes imagined threats, such as dependency and external economic and cultural penetration, can constitute an important cause of radical realignment activity.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138940070
• ISBN13: 9781138940079
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 234 Pages
• Weight: 1.13 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"