A strategic-relational analysis of foreign policy: evidence from the Italian case

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• Elisabetta Brighi, POLIS
• Tuesday 10 June 2014, 17:00-18:30
• Alison Richards Building, 7 West Road (Sidgwick Site), Room: S2.

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After interrogating a vast body of literature from International Relations (IR), Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and comparative politics on the relation between domestic politics, foreign policy and international relations, I propose to introduce the ‘strategic-relational model’ to the field of FPA and reconceptualise foreign policy as a dialectic produced by the interplay of context, strategy and discourse. I then demonstrate the added value of this conceptualisation through an investigation of key episodes within Italian foreign policy – inter alia, Italy’s Cold War alliance politics, colonial interventions, fascist foreign policy and participation in the wars of Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.

This talk is part of the Europe Research Seminar Series series.

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