Fear and the making of foreign policy : Europe and beyond /
Raymond Taras explains the causal mechanisms propelling three European Union states to become engaged in outside conflicts and tells the story of when and why xenophobia at home is converted into xenophobia abroad. Key features, include a scholarly investigation into the role that human phobias play...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2015]
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| Summary: | Raymond Taras explains the causal mechanisms propelling three European Union states to become engaged in outside conflicts and tells the story of when and why xenophobia at home is converted into xenophobia abroad. Key features, include a scholarly investigation into the role that human phobias play in international politics, the examination of states in Europe and beyond that have been marked by contrasting historical pathways whose policy responses to "strangers" at home and to "friends" or "foes" abroad are dramatically dissimilar, addressing the phenomena of social fears, moral panic and declinism of the West through the prism of xenophobic attitudes and their often underestimated consequences and includes chapter-length case studies of France, Poland and Sweden, as well as offering counterpoints furnished by the United States, China, Iran and Turkey. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 214 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 202-204) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780748699032 (paperback) 0748699031 9780748699018 (hardback) 0748699015 (hardback) |