A Theory of Foreign Policy

by T. Morgan, Glenn Palmer, T. Clifton Morgan

Book Overview

This book presents a general explanation of how states develop their foreign policy. The theory stands in contrast to most approaches--which assume that states want to maximize security--by assuming that states pursue two things, or goods, through their foreign policy: change and maintenance. States, in other words, try both to change aspects of the international status quo that they don't like and maintain those aspects they do like. A state's ability...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691123594
• ISBN13: 9780691123592
• Release Date: February 2006
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.3"