Role quests in the post-cold war era
Subtitle: foreign policies in transition
By: edited by Philippe G. Le Prestre.
Contributors: Le Prestre, Philippe G.; Université du Québec à Montréal. Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Montreal; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 318
Subjects: International relations.
Description: Role Quests in the Post-Cold War Era examines foreign policy change through a comparative analysis of the reaction of the Great Powers to transformations in international relations after the Cold War. Contributors describe and explain the efforts of the United States, the Soviet Union/Russia, China, Japan, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada to redefine their roles in an environment that has become internally and externally more uncertain.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-304) and index.
"Conducted under the auspices of the Centre d'études des politiques étrangères et de sécurité (CEPES) of the Université du Québec à Montréal"--Acknowledgments.
Table of contents: title: Author! Author! Defining foreign policy roles after the Cold War / Philippe G. Le Prestre; title: The Soviet Union/Russia : which past for which future? / Jean-François Thibault and Jacques Lévesque; title: Articulating the new international role of the United States during previous transitions, 1916-1919, 1943-1947 / Jean-René Chotard; title: The United States : an elusive role quest after the Cold War / Philippe G. Le Prestre; title: Japan : a great power despite itself / Alex Macleod; title: Germany : to be or not to be normal? / Paul Létourneau and Marie-Elisabeth Räkel; title: France : the straitjacket of new freedom / Charles Thumerelle and Philippe G. Le Prestre; title: Great Britain : still searching for status? / Alex Macleod; title: China : role conceptions after the Cold War / Onnig Beylerian with Christophe Canivet; title: Canada : a reassertion of its role as a middle power / André P. Donneur and Caroline C. Alain; title: Change and continuity in foreign policy role conceptions after the Cold War / Philippe G. Le Prestre.