Overview
- Provides a timely critical analysis of major approaches to international relations and assesses their utility to understand recent developments such as the impact of the Trump presidency and Brexit
- Examines whether foreign policy in Europe has changed during the course of the post-Cold War period
- Questions whether fear and uncertainty drives foreign policy in Europe and whether realism is a useful instrument to understand it
Part of the book series: Global Issues (GLOISS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Context
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EU Member States
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About this book
Russia’s intervention in the Ukraine, Donald Trump’s presidency and instability in the Middle East are just a few of the factors that have brought an end to the immediate post-Cold War belief that a new international order was emerging: one where fear and uncertainty gave way to a thick normative and institutional architecture that diminished the importance of material power. This has raised questions about the instruments we use to understand order in Europe and in international relations. The chapters in this book aim to assess whether foreign policy actors in Europe understand the international system and behave as realists. They ask what drives their behaviour, how they construct material capabilities and to what extent they see material power as the means to ensure survival. They contribute to a critical assessment of realism as a way to understand both Europe’s current predicament and the contemporary international system.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Vincent Della Sala is associate professor of political science at the University of Trento, Italy.
Paul Viotti is professor at the University of Denver's Korbel School of International Studies and Executive Director of the Institute on Globalization and Security, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Fear and Uncertainty in Europe
Book Subtitle: The Return to Realism?
Editors: Roberto Belloni, Vincent Della Sala, Paul Viotti
Series Title: Global Issues
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91965-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-91964-5Published: 17 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-06337-5Published: 25 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-91965-2Published: 02 August 2018
Series ISSN: 2947-8863
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8871
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 292
Topics: European Politics, International Relations Theory, European Union Politics, International Organization, Foreign Policy, International Security Studies