This book offers a re-examination of foreign policy, in its relation with domestic politics and international relations (IR).
Bringing together a vast body of literature from IR, foreign policy analysis, comparative politics and public policy, this book systematically reconceptualises foreign policy as a dialectic, produced by the interplay of context, strategy and discourse. It argues that foreign policy defies easy understandings and necessitates a complex framework of analysis, introducing the Strategic-Relational Model, as conceptualised in critical realism, for the first time...
This book offers a re-examination of foreign policy, in its relation with domestic politics and international relations (IR).
What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, transcendence and immanence, religion and violence? And how has this complex relation affected the history of Western political reason? In this volume an international group of scholars explore these questions in light of mimetic theory as formulated by Rene Girard (1923-2015), one of the most original thinkers of our time. From Aristotle and his idea of tragedy, passing through Machiavelli and political modernity, up to contemporary biopolitics, this work provides an indispensable guide to those who want to assess the thorny...
What is the relationship between the sacred and the political, transcendence and immanence, religion and violence? And how has this complex relation a...
