The Transformation of Foreign Policy Drawing and Managing Boundaries from Antiquity to the Present

by Hellmann, Gunther; Fahrmeir, Andreas; Vec, Milo

• ISBN13: 9780191826511
• ISBN10: 0191826510
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2016-09-21
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Gunther Hellmann, Professor of Political Science, Goethe University of Frankfurt,Andreas Fahrmeir, Professor of Modern History, Goethe University of Frankfurt,Milo Vec, Professor of Legal and Constitutional History, University of Vienna

Gunther Hellmann is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences and Principal Investigator in the Centre of Excellence 'Formation of Normative Orders', both at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His research interests are in the fields of foreign policy analysis, especially German and European foreign policy, international security, esp. transatlantic and European security, and international relations theory. He is one of the editors of Zeitschrift fur Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB).

Andreas Fahrmeir is Professor of Modern History at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. He is a principal investigator with the 'Normative Orders' research cluster and co-editor of the Historische Zeitschrift.

Milo Vec is Professor of Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna. He is co-editor with Thomas Hippler of Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe (OUP, 2015).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Andreas Fahrmeir, Gunther Hellmann and Miloš Vec
Theorizing Foreign Policy: Actorhood and Boundaries
2. The Transformation of Foreign Policy: Legal Framework,Historiography, and Theory, Andreas Fahrmeir, Gunther Hellmann and Miloš Vec
3. Foreign Policy: Concept, Vocabulary, and Practice, Gunther Hellmann
4. Inside/Outside(s): Conceptualizations, Criteria, and Functions of a Dichotomy in 19th-Century International Legal Doctrine, Miloš Vec
The Governance of Intercommunal Relations in Antiquity
5. Between Demarcation and Integration: The Context of Foreign Policy in Ancient Greece, Hans Beck
6. Aspects of the Christianisation of Foreign Policy in Late Antiquity: The Impact of Religious Universalism, Hartmut Leppin
Uncertainty and Transition within the "Westphalian System": Normative Patterns and Practices between and beyond Sovereign States
7. Fragile Boundaries and Personal Actors: The Nineteenth Century as a Period of Transformation, Andreas Fahrmeir
8. Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Legal History: International Law, Foreign Policy and the Construction of a Legal Order, Luigi Nuzzo
9. Back to the Future: Rediscovery of Diplomatic Conduct and the Moment of Foreign Policy Transformation: Diplomacy between Versailles and Locarno, 1919-25, Verena Steller
Alternative Authorities in Intercommunal Relations and International Law
10. Renaissance of the City as Global Actor: The Role of Foreign Policy and International Law Practices in the Construction of Cities as Global Actors, Janne E. Nijman
11. States Only?: The Evolution of Diplomacy, Christer Jonsson
12. Domestic Public Diplomacy, Domestic Diplomacy, and Domestic Foreign Policy, Paul Sharp
Conclusions
13. The Multiple and Changing Purposes of Foreign Policy, Andreas Fahrmeir, Gunther Hellmann and Miloš Vec