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The 1990s saw global flows of foreign direct investment increase some sevenfold, spurring economists to explore FDI from a micro- or trade-based perspective. Foreign Direct Investment is one of the first books to analyze the macroeconomics of FDI, treating FDI as a unique form of international capital flow between specific pairs of countries.By examining the determinants of the aggregate flows of FDI at the bilateral, source-host-country level, Assaf Razin and Efraim Sadka present the first systematic global analysis of the singular features of FDI flows. Drawing on a wealth of fresh data, they provide new theoretical models and empirical techniques that illuminate the vital country-pair characteristics that drive these flows. Uniquely, Foreign Direct Investment examines FDI between developed and developing countries, and not just between developed countries. Among many other insights, the book shows that tax competition vis-à-vis FDI need not lead to a ""race to the bottom."" Foreign Direct Investment is an essential resource for graduate students, academics, and policy professionals.

Legvold reviews 'The New Russian Foreign Policy' edited by Michael Mandelbaum.

This paper examines the structure and domestic political relevance of foreign policy beliefs in contemporary Britain. Confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) of data gathered in five national surveys conducted between May and September 2008 show that the British public's foreign policy beliefs are organized by two latent factors, which we label Liberal Internationalism and British Militarism. These factors closely resemble those reported in studies of the foreign policy beliefs of the American public. Analyses reveal significant co variation between the two foreign policy belief factors and voting intentions, as well as with partisanship and feelings about party leaders -- key predictor variables in voting behavior models. These relationships remain significant in the presence of several controls, including measures of incumbent government performance in domestic and foreign policy domains. Demonstrating that foreign policy beliefs matter for the fates of political parties and their leaders helps to explain how public opinion in democratic politics affects the conduct of international relations. Adapted from the source document.

An unofficial translation of Foreign minister Fatin Rüstü Zorlu's statement before the Turkish Parliament in defense of his budget. ; Cover title. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Preface -- Preface to the British Edition -- Table of Contents -- Part One: The International Situation of the Soviet Union at the End of the Stalin Era -- 1. Stalin and His Lieutenants in Foreign Affairs -- 2. Stalin's Empire Building -- 1. No Second Communist Empire -- 2. The Yugoslav Rebellion -- 3. The "People's Democracies" -- 3. Germany: The Big Issue -- 4. The Far East -- 1. The Korean War -- 2. China -- Stalin's Course in China -- Who is Leader in Asia? -- 3. Japan -- 5. The Deadlock -- 1. Stalin's Legacy in the Middle East -- The Balkans -- The Arab Nations -- The Mediterranean -- Eastern Turkey -- Iran -- 2. Conflicts Everywhere -- Part Two: The Malenkov-Molotov Era -- 1. The Death of the Leader -- 2. Relaxation -- 3. The Course in Respect to the West -- 4. Conferences and Crises -- 1. The Berlin Conference -- 2. The Geneva Conference -- 3. Crisis in the Western Bloc -- 4. The Anti-NATO Alignment -- 5. The "People's Democracies" -- 1. Rumblings in the East -- 2. Conformity with Moscow -- 3. Police and Internal Affairs -- 4. The National Economies -- 5. Abolition of Mixed Companies -- 6. The Middle East -- 1. The Balkan and the Baghdad Pacts -- 2. Failure in Iran -- 7. The Ascendancy of Nikita Khrushchev -- Part Three: The First Khrushchev Era -- 1. The Session of the Central Committee of July, 1955 -- 2. The Thaw and its Limits -- 1. No Success in London -- 2. The French in Moscow -- 3. The Western Socialists -- 3. "Relaxation of Tensions" -- 1. The Austrian State Treaty -- 2. Relations with the Bonn Government -- 3. Finland: Hesitation and Concessions -- 4. The First Summit Conference -- 4. The Uncommitted Nations -- 1. No Neutrals? -- 2. The Bandung Conference -- 3. India and Burma -- 4. Khrushchev and Bulganin in South Asia.

AbstractWhat explains major foreign policy changes? Why and when does the state change its foreign policy? Despite the importance of foreign policy change, which can (re)shape the nature of a given state's international relationsvis-à-visother states and international systems, explanations of foreign policy change have received only sporadic attention in foreign policy analysis literature. Against this backdrop, I offer in this article a new framework designed to capturebothmotivational and processual aspects of foreign policy change. I develop the framework by critically examining and synthesising two recent systematic explorations of foreign policy change: one framework within the tradition of rationalism (broadly defined) – David Welch'sPainful Choice: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change(2005) – and the other within constructivism – Jeffrey Legro'sRethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order(2006). For the motivational analysis, I link the role of crisis-defining ideas tothreat perceptionto sharpen prospect theory. I illustrate this reformulated synthesis with an example of Japan's policy shift toward East Asian financial regionalism.

"Domestic Politics and Foreign Policy" published on by Oxford University Press.