Political Opposition and Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective

Download or read book Political Opposition and Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective written by Joe D. Hagan and published by Lynne Rienner Pub. This book was released on 1993 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political explanations in comparative foreign policy research typically centre on the assumption that foreign policy decision-makers in democratic regimes are far more politically constrained than are their counterparts in authoritarian polities. Disputing this assumption, Professor Hagan draws on case studies of the politics of foreign policy in a variety of non-US settings to develop direct measures of actual political opposition and thus to capture its pervasiveness across all types of political systems.