Political Culture Foreign Policy And Conflict

Author : Professor Howard J Wiarda
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781409471899

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Culture and Foreign Policy by Professor Howard J Wiarda Pdf

Political culture refers to the basic values, ideas, beliefs and political orientations by which countries, societies, and whole regions are guided. The underlying belief systems that shape cultures and societies and cause them to behave in certain, often distinct ways. The puzzle or query that chiefly concerns this author is why the United States (US) and its foreign policy have such a hard time understanding cultures and societies other than their own. This provocative book argues that the US needs to end its attitudes of superiority and condescension toward other nations and cultures and redirect its foreign policy accordingly. After an introduction that sets forth the main theoretical and conceptual arguments, the next chapters explore all the main areas of the world. The Conclusion pulls all these themes together, analyzes the common patterns that emerge, and suggests new directions for U.S foreign policy.

Author : Basheer Meibar
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1982-04-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780313229411

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Political Culture, Foreign Policy, and Conflict by Basheer Meibar Pdf

Author : Roland H. Ebel,Raymond C. Taras,James D. Cochrane
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1991-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438401805

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Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America by Roland H. Ebel,Raymond C. Taras,James D. Cochrane Pdf

This book explores the impact of Latin America's political culture on the international politics of the region. It offers a general account of traditional Iberian political culture while examining how relations among states in the hemisphere — where the United States has been the central actor — have evolved over time. The authors assess the degree of consistency between domestic and international political behavior. The assessments are supported by case studies.

Author : Jonathan Rynhold
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107094420

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict in American Political Culture by Jonathan Rynhold Pdf

This book surveys discourse and opinion in the United States toward the Arab-Israeli conflict since 1991. Contrary to popular myth, it demonstrates that U.S. support for Israel is not based on the pro-Israel lobby, but rather is deeply rooted in American political culture. That support has increased since 9/11. However, the bulk of this increase has been among Republicans, conservatives, evangelicals, and Orthodox Jews. Meanwhile, among Democrats, liberals, the Mainline Protestant Church, and non-Orthodox Jews, criticism of Israeli policies toward the Palestinians has become more vociferous. This book works to explain this paradox.

Author : Benjamin MacQueen
Publisher : Academic Monographs
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0522859968

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ISS 3 Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab World by Benjamin MacQueen Pdf

Benjamin MacQueen presents an innovative and in-depth look at contemporary conflict resolution in the Arab Middle East, developing a unique theory of political culture through his analysis of peace processes in Lebanon and Algeria. Moving beyond conventional perspectives, Political Culture and Conflict Resolution in the Arab World highlights that while culture can serve as a key to resolving and transforming conflict, if neglected, it can act to worsen the conditions that lead to conflict. This book represents a critical advance in the study of conflict and its resolution in the Arab World.

Author : Richard J. Payne
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1995-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438415666

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The Clash with Distant Cultures by Richard J. Payne Pdf

Whereas foreign policymaking is generally viewed as a rational, unemotional, and sophisticated process, this analysis of American policies toward the Persian Gulf, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, and the Bosnian conflict suggests that the underlying and largely unexamined cultural values of most ordinary Americans play a major role in determining the United States' choice of force or negotiation in dealing with international problems. Payne examines the linkage between the United States' tendency to use force in foreign policy and the culture of violence in America. He argues that the costs of resolving conflicts militarily are likely to become more burdensome as economic competitors seek to take advantage of the U.S. tendency to demonstrate resolve primarily through the application of force. Post-Cold War challenges, Payne argues, call for a more nuanced combination of force and diplomacy. He finds hope in the fact that a strong component of American culture favors nonviolence, embraces humanitarianism, and if cultivated can contribute to the peaceful resolution of conflicts.

Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317156031

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Culture and Foreign Policy by Howard J. Wiarda Pdf

Political culture refers to the basic values, ideas, beliefs and political orientations by which countries, societies, and whole regions are guided. The underlying belief systems that shape cultures and societies and cause them to behave in certain, often distinct ways. The puzzle or query that chiefly concerns this author is why the United States (US) and its foreign policy have such a hard time understanding cultures and societies other than their own. This provocative book argues that the US needs to end its attitudes of superiority and condescension toward other nations and cultures and redirect its foreign policy accordingly. After an introduction that sets forth the main theoretical and conceptual arguments, the next chapters explore all the main areas of the world. The Conclusion pulls all these themes together, analyzes the common patterns that emerge, and suggests new directions for U.S foreign policy.

Author : Elizabeth Stephens
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781837641901

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US Policy Towards Israel by Elizabeth Stephens Pdf

Although political culture is not sole explanatory factor in development of US policy toward Israel, it has played a key role in serving to shape and define American approach to foreign affairs. This book explains American commitment to Israel within a framework of political culture.

Author : Philip G. Cerny
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1980-03-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0521228638

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The Politics of Grandeur by Philip G. Cerny Pdf

De Gaulle was the first major Western leader to pursue a foreign policy designed consistently to break the vicious circle of the Cold War and the straitjacket of the nuclear balance of terror between Russia and the United States. At the same time, he sought to establish in France a new set of institutions designed to break another vicious circle: that of the divisive conflicts between French social groups and political parties, which led to weak governments and an ineffective state. This book studies the link between these two aims, both by examining de Gaulle's political aims and style in a political and cultural context, and by looking first at French policy towards the Atlantic alliance, and then at the impact of de Gaulle's foreign policy on domestic politics. As a result, many of the orthodox notions about de Gaulle are questioned.

Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Identity politics
ISBN : OCLC:982044314

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Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics by Howard J. Wiarda Pdf

Political Culture (defined as the values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns underlying the political system) has long had an uneasy relationship with political science. Identity politics is the latest incarnation of this conflict. Everyone agrees that culture and identity are important, specifically political culture, is important in understanding other countries and global regions, but no one agrees how much or how precisely to measure it. In this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others. Today, political culture, now updated to include identity politics, stands as one of these great explanatory paradigms in political science, the others being structuralism and institutionalism. Rather than seeing them as diametrically exposed, Howard Wiarda shows how they may be made complementary and woven together in more complex, multicausal explanations. This book is brief, highly readable, provocative and certain to stimulate discussion. It will be of interest to general readers and as a text in courses in international relations, comparative politics, foreign policy, and Third World studies.

Author : Morton H. Halperin,Priscilla Clapp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780815734109

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Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy by Morton H. Halperin,Priscilla Clapp Pdf

The first edition of Bureaucratic Politics and Foreign Policy is one of the most successful Brookings titles of all time. This thoroughly revised version updates that classic analysis of the role played by the federal bureaucracy—civilian career officials, political appointees, and military officers—and Congress in formulating U.S. national security policy, illustrating how policy decisions are actually made. Government agencies, departments, and individuals all have certain interests to preserve and promote. Those priorities, and the conflicts they sometimes spark, heavily influence the formulation and implementation of foreign policy. A decision that looks like an orchestrated attempt to influence another country may in fact represent a shaky compromise between rival elements within the U.S. government. The authors provide numerous examples of bureaucratic maneuvering and reveal how they have influenced our international relations. The revised edition includes new examples of bureaucratic politics from the past three decades, from Jimmy Carter's view of the State Department to conflicts between George W. Bush and the bureaucracy regarding Iraq. The second edition also includes a new analysis of Congress's role in the politics of foreign policymaking.

Author : Stephen J. Blank,Karl P. Magyar,Al Et Al
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1410200485

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Conflict, Culture, and History by Stephen J. Blank,Karl P. Magyar,Al Et Al Pdf

Five specialists examine the historical relationship of culture and conflict in various regional societies. The authors use Adda B. Bozeman's theories on conflict and culture as the basis for their analyses of the causes, nature, and conduct of war and conflict in the Soviet Union, the Middle East, Sinic Asia (China, Japan, and Vietnam), Latin America, and Africa. Drs. Blank, Lawrence Grinter, Karl P. Magyar, Lewis B. Ware, and Bynum E. Weathers conclude that non-Western cultures and societies do not reject war but look at violence and conflict as a normal and legitimate aspect of sociopolitical behavior.

Author : Howard J. Wiarda
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317078852

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Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics by Howard J. Wiarda Pdf

Political Culture (defined as the values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns underlying the political system) has long had an uneasy relationship with political science. Identity politics is the latest incarnation of this conflict. Everyone agrees that culture and identity are important, specifically political culture, is important in understanding other countries and global regions, but no one agrees how much or how precisely to measure it. In this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others. Today, political culture, now updated to include identity politics, stands as one of these great explanatory paradigms in political science, the others being structuralism and institutionalism. Rather than seeing them as diametrically exposed, Howard Wiarda shows how they may be made complementary and woven together in more complex, multicausal explanations. This book is brief, highly readable, provocative and certain to stimulate discussion. It will be of interest to general readers and as a text in courses in international relations, comparative politics, foreign policy, and Third World studies.

Author : Roland H. Ebel,Raymond C. Taras,James D. Cochrane
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1991-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0791406059

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Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America by Roland H. Ebel,Raymond C. Taras,James D. Cochrane Pdf

This book explores the impact of Latin America’s political culture on the international politics of the region. It offers a general account of traditional Iberian political culture while examining how relations among states in the hemisphere — where the United States has been the central actor — have evolved over time. The authors assess the degree of consistency between domestic and international political behavior. The assessments are supported by case studies.

Author : Richard M. Valelly,Suzanne Mettler,Robert C. Lieberman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 800 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191086984

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The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development by Richard M. Valelly,Suzanne Mettler,Robert C. Lieberman Pdf

Scholars working in or sympathetic to American political development (APD) share a commitment to accurately understanding the history of American politics - and thus they question stylized facts about America's political evolution. Like other approaches to American politics, APD prizes analytical rigor, data collection, the development and testing of theory, and the generation of provocative hypotheses. Much APD scholarship indeed overlaps with the American politics subfield and its many well developed literatures on specific institutions or processes (for example Congress, judicial politics, or party competition), specific policy domains (welfare policy, immigration), the foundations of (in)equality in American politics (the distribution of wealth and income, race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexual and gender orientation), public law, and governance and representation. What distinguishes APD is careful, systematic thought about the ways that political processes, civic ideals, the political construction of social divisions, patterns of identity formation, the making and implementation of public policies, contestation over (and via) the Constitution, and other formal and informal institutions and processes evolve over time - and whether (and how) they alter, compromise, or sustain the American liberal democratic regime. APD scholars identify, in short, the histories that constitute American politics. They ask: what familiar or unfamiliar elements of the American past illuminate the present? Are contemporary phenomena that appear new or surprising prefigured in ways that an APD approach can bring to the fore? If a contemporary phenomenon is unprecedented then how might an accurate understanding of the evolution of American politics unlock its significance? Featuring contributions from leading academics in the field, The Oxford Handbook of American Political Development provides an authoritative and accessible analysis of the study of American political development.