World politics and foreign policy

Living in a progressively globalized world, the sophisticated appreciation of a country‘s foreign policy is more complex and at the same time more important than ever before due to the increasing interdependence and the network character of foreign policies. Attending to this topic, the book at hand closes a gap in the social science literature by providing the reader with an overview of the foreign relations of various states in Africa, America, Asia, Europe and Oceania. One of its major merits is resulting from the felicitous mixture of historical, geographical, economical and political background information. By drawing a differentiated picture of the key aspects of a state‘s domestic and foreign policy, the analysis affords the opportunity to understand the inner logic of a country‘s foreign policy on the one hand and its actual limitations by the interests of other, interlinked states on the other hand. By fathoming the different points of view this volume demonstrates the many ways of understanding and relating to other countries and thereby opens new perspectives to draw conclusions for the foreign policy objectives needed to withstand in a globalized world.