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Culture and Foreign Policy

The Neglected Factor in International Relations

By: Professor Howard J Wiarda

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Culture and Foreign Policy

The Neglected Factor in International Relations

By: Professor Howard J Wiarda

Political culture refers to the basic values, ideas, beliefs and political orientations by which countries, societies, and whole regions are guided. The underlying belief systems that shape cultures and societies and cause them to behave in certain, often distinct ways. The puzzle or query that chiefly concerns this author is why the United States (US) and its foreign policy have such a hard time understanding cultures and societies other than their own. This provocative book argues that the US needs to end its attitudes of superiority and condescension toward other nations and cultures and redirect its foreign policy accordingly. After an introduction that sets forth the main theoretical and conceptual arguments, the next chapters explore all the main areas of the world. The Conclusion pulls all these themes together, analyzes the common patterns that emerge, and suggests new directions for U.S foreign policy.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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1409471896

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9781409471899

Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics

An Uneasy Alliance

By: Professor Howard J Wiarda

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Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics

An Uneasy Alliance

By: Professor Howard J Wiarda

Political Culture (defined as the values, beliefs, and behavioral patterns underlying the political system) has long had an uneasy relationship with political science. Identity politics is the latest incarnation of this conflict. Everyone agrees that culture and identity are important, specifically political culture, is important in understanding other countries and global regions, but no one agrees how much or how precisely to measure it. In this important book, well known Comparativist, Howard J. Wiarda, traces the long and controversial history of culture studies, and the relations of political culture and identity politics to political science. Under attack from structuralists, institutionalists, Marxists, and dependency writers, Wiarda examines and assesses the reasons for these attacks and why political culture went into decline only to have a new and transcendent renaissance and revival in the writings of Inglehart, Fukuyama, Putnam, Huntington and many others. Today, political culture, now updated to include identity politics, stands as one of these great explanatory paradigms in political science, the others being structuralism and institutionalism. Rather than seeing them as diametrically exposed, Howard Wiarda shows how they may be made complementary and woven together in more complex, multicausal explanations. This book is brief, highly readable, provocative and certain to stimulate discussion. It will be of interest to general readers and as a text in courses in international relations, comparative politics, foreign policy, and Third World studies.

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Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

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147244230X

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9781472442307

Patterns of Democracy

Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-six Countries

By: Arend Lijphart,Professor of Political Science Arend Lijphart

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Patterns of Democracy

Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-six Countries

By: Arend Lijphart,Professor of Political Science Arend Lijphart

Trata sobre a atuação e formas de governo em 36 países.

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Yale University Press

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0300078935

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9780300078930

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Culture and Foreign Policy

Culture and Foreign Policy

Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics

Political Culture, Political Science, and Identity Politics

Patterns of Democracy

Patterns of Democracy

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