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Neack provides a thorough overview of how states pursue security against violence, how this pursuit puts those same states and others in the international system into more or less constant threat of violence, and the implication of state-security practices for human beings who are, always, the victims of this violence

Studying foreign policy comparatively -- Rational actors and national interests -- Cognition and leadership orientation -- Ultimate decision units -- National culture, roles, and institutions -- Domestic politics -- Public opinion and media -- International relations theories and foreign policy -- Conclusion: An intermestic arena with linkage actors

The elusive nature of security -- National security -- Internal security -- Unilateral pursuit of external security -- Multilateral and bilateral responses to external security threats -- International security : multilateral efforts to achieve security -- United Nations peacekeeping and peace enforcement -- Human security -- Conclusion : resilience and imagination

Integrating theory and case studies, this cogent text explores the processes and factors that shape foreign policy. In her thoroughly revised and updated edition, Laura Neack considers both old and new lessons, drawing on a rich array of real foreign policy choices and outcomes. In new cases, Neack explores decision making in the Eurozone crisis, increasing nationalism in Germany and Japan and what seems to be growing bellicosity among Canadians, Obama's grand strategy and the responses of rising powers Brazil and India, and the Egyptian youth revolution

Introduction: The new foreign policy -- Rational actors and the national interests -- Cognitive misers and distrusting leaders -- Decision units, small groups and bureaucratic politics -- National self-image, culture, and domestic institutions -- Domestic politics -- Public opinion and media -- Great powers -- The other powers -- Conclusion: A nested game with many players

"Searching for Middle Powers" published on by Oxford University Press.