What is to be done? Foreign policy as a site for political action

International Affairs

Volumn 79, Issue 2, 2003, Pages

  Hill, Christopher ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0041929606     PISSN: 00205850     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2346.00306     Document Type: Review

References (20)

1. V. I. Lenin, What is to be done?, ed. S. V. Utechin (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1963; first publ. 1902). Lenin's title was itself a form of homage to Nikolai Chernyshevsky's 1862 novel of the same name, whose ascetic, superhuman hero inspired much subsequent opposition to the tsars.
2. Richard C. Snyder, H. W. Bruck and Burton Sapin, Foreign policy decision making (New York; Free Press, 1962); Joseph Frankel, The making of foreign policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963); Irving Janis, Victims of groupthink: a psychological study of foreign policy decisions and fiascoes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972; and 2nd rev. edn Groupthink: psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes, 1982); Robert Jervis, Perception and misperception in international politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976); Graham Allison, Essence of decision: explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971). A considerably revised edition of the last work was published in 1999 by Addison-Wesley of New York, in which Allison was joined as co-author by Philip Zelikow.
3. Richard C. Snyder, H. W. Bruck and Burton Sapin, Foreign policy decision making (New York; Free Press, 1962); Joseph Frankel, The making of foreign policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963); Irving Janis, Victims of groupthink: a psychological study of foreign policy decisions and fiascoes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972; and 2nd rev. edn Groupthink: psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes, 1982); Robert Jervis, Perception and misperception in international politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976); Graham Allison, Essence of decision: explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971). A considerably revised edition of the last work was published in 1999 by Addison-Wesley of New York, in which Allison was joined as co-author by Philip Zelikow.
4. Richard C. Snyder, H. W. Bruck and Burton Sapin, Foreign policy decision making (New York; Free Press, 1962); Joseph Frankel, The making of foreign policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963); Irving Janis, Victims of groupthink: a psychological study of foreign policy decisions and fiascoes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972; and 2nd rev. edn Groupthink: psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes, 1982); Robert Jervis, Perception and misperception in international politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976); Graham Allison, Essence of decision: explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971). A considerably revised edition of the last work was published in 1999 by Addison-Wesley of New York, in which Allison was joined as co-author by Philip Zelikow.
5. Richard C. Snyder, H. W. Bruck and Burton Sapin, Foreign policy decision making (New York; Free Press, 1962); Joseph Frankel, The making of foreign policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963); Irving Janis, Victims of groupthink: a psychological study of foreign policy decisions and fiascoes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972; and 2nd rev. edn Groupthink: psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes, 1982); Robert Jervis, Perception and misperception in international politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976); Graham Allison, Essence of decision: explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971). A considerably revised edition of the last work was published in 1999 by Addison-Wesley of New York, in which Allison was joined as co-author by Philip Zelikow.
6. Richard C. Snyder, H. W. Bruck and Burton Sapin, Foreign policy decision making (New York; Free Press, 1962); Joseph Frankel, The making of foreign policy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1963); Irving Janis, Victims of groupthink: a psychological study of foreign policy decisions and fiascoes (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972; and 2nd rev. edn Groupthink: psychological studies of policy decisions and fiascoes, 1982); Robert Jervis, Perception and misperception in international politics (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1976); Graham Allison, Essence of decision: explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (Boston: Little, Brown, 1971). A considerably revised edition of the last work was published in 1999 by Addison-Wesley of New York, in which Allison was joined as co-author by Philip Zelikow.
7. This discussion is amplified in Christopher Hill. The changing politics of foreign policy (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2003).
8. On global governance, see David Held and Anthony McGrew, eds, Governing globalization: power, authority and global governance (Cambridge: Polity, 2002). For debate on the notion of 'empire', seen as the emergence of a decentred but inevitably American or Western-dominated international order, see Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000) and the articles commenting on it by Alex Callinicos, Martin Shaw and R. B. J. Walker in Millennium: Journal of International Studies 31: 2, 2002. See also Robert Cooper, 'The next empire', Prospect, Oct. 2001.
9. On global governance, see David Held and Anthony McGrew, eds, Governing globalization: power, authority and global governance (Cambridge: Polity, 2002). For debate on the notion of 'empire', seen as the emergence of a decentred but inevitably American or Western-dominated international order, see Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000) and the articles commenting on it by Alex Callinicos, Martin Shaw and R. B. J. Walker in Millennium: Journal of International Studies 31: 2, 2002. See also Robert Cooper, 'The next empire', Prospect, Oct. 2001.
10. On global governance, see David Held and Anthony McGrew, eds, Governing globalization: power, authority and global governance (Cambridge: Polity, 2002). For debate on the notion of 'empire', seen as the emergence of a decentred but inevitably American or Western-dominated international order, see Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000) and the articles commenting on it by Alex Callinicos, Martin Shaw and R. B. J. Walker in Millennium: Journal of International Studies 31: 2, 2002. See also Robert Cooper, 'The next empire', Prospect, Oct. 2001.
11. On global governance, see David Held and Anthony McGrew, eds, Governing globalization: power, authority and global governance (Cambridge: Polity, 2002). For debate on the notion of 'empire', seen as the emergence of a decentred but inevitably American or Western-dominated international order, see Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri, Empire (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000) and the articles commenting on it by Alex Callinicos, Martin Shaw and R. B. J. Walker in Millennium: Journal of International Studies 31: 2, 2002. See also Robert Cooper, 'The next empire', Prospect, Oct. 2001.
12. Fred Halliday, Revolution and world politics: the rise and fall of the sixth great power (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999).
13. Robert D. Putnam, 'Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games', International Organisation 42, Summer 1988, repr. and developed on in Peter B. Evans, Harold K. Jacobson and Robert D. Putnam, eds, Double-edged diplomacy: international bargaining and domestic politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
14. Robert D. Putnam, 'Diplomacy and domestic politics: the logic of two-level games', International Organisation 42, Summer 1988, repr. and developed on in Peter B. Evans, Harold K. Jacobson and Robert D. Putnam, eds, Double-edged diplomacy: international bargaining and domestic politics (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1993).
15. Arnold Wolfers, 'The goals of foreign policy', in Discord and collaboration: essays on international politics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1902), pp. 67-80.
16. Jack Spence, 'Introduction' in Jim Broderick, Gary Burford and Gordon Freer, eds, South Africa's foreign policy: dilemmas of a new democracy (Basingstoke: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2001) p. 7.
17. We owe this notion to Joseph Nye. See his 'Soft power', Foreign Policy 80, Fall 1990, pp. 153-71.
18. Michael Leifer, The foreign policy of Singapore: coping with vulnerability (London: Routledge, 2000).
19. For a pre-September 11 critique of the idea of rogue states, which still presciently took Iraq, Iran and North Korea as case-studies, see Robert Litwak, Rogue states and US foreign policy: containment after the Cold War (Washington DC: Woodrow Wilson Centre Press, 2002).
20. This is close to the 'thin' and 'thick' conceptions of morality talked about by Michael Walzer. See Michael Walzer, Thick and thin: moral argument at home and abroad (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1994).