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dc.contributor.authorLeira, Halvard
dc.date.accessioned2020-12-08T12:55:15Z
dc.date.available2020-12-08T12:55:15Z
dc.date.created2019-01-16T10:32:52Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.issn0020-8833
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/11250/2712405
dc.description.abstractInternational relations scholarship typically treats foreign policy as a taken-for-granted analytical concept. It assumes either that all historical polities have foreign policies or that foreign policy originates in seventeenth-century Europe with the separation between the “inside” and “outside” of the state. It generally holds that foreign policy differs in essential ways from other kinds of policy, such as carrying with it a special need for secrecy. I argue against this view. The difference between “foreign” and “domestic” policy results from specific political processes; secrecy begat foreign policy. Growing domestic differentiation between state and civil society in the eighteenth century—articulated through a relatively free press operating in a nascent public sphere—enabled the emergence of foreign policy as a practical concept. The concept served to delimit the legitimate sphere of political discourse from the exclusive, executive sphere of king and cabinet. I explore these processes in Britain and France, important cases with different trajectories, one of reform, the other of revolution. Historicizing foreign policy like this serves to denaturalize the separation between different forms of policy, as well as the necessity of secrecy. Doing so cautions against the uncritical application of abstract analytical terms across time and space.
dc.description.abstractThe Emergence of Foreign Policy
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsNavngivelse 4.0 Internasjonal*
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dc.titleThe Emergence of Foreign Policyen_US
dc.typeJournal articleen_US
dc.typePeer revieweden_US
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dc.source.journalInternational Studies Quarterlyen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1093/isq/sqy049
dc.identifier.cristin1657951
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cristin.unitnameGlobal orden og diplomati
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