War and security foreign policies 152 Why states prefer certain military/strategic options over
others: the role of strategic culture 157 Preventing war: creating stable balances of power …

Since the end of the bipolar era, the military activism of several Western powers has raised
questions about parliamentary control, fostering growing research and analyses on the …

From Austria to New Zealand, coalition governments often pave the road to foreign policy. In
Western Europe, nearly 90 percent of postwar governments include two or more political …

Comparative foreign policy analysis (CFP) is a vibrant and dynamic subfield of international
relations. It examines foreign policy decision-making processes related to momentous …

Why do some military deployment decisions lead to high levels of political contestation,
whereas others do not? Or, put differently, when does parliamentary consensus on the use …

This book sets out to explain the foreign policy of Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi
(February 2014 to December 2016). It offers a unique analytical framework to make sense of …

When and how do regional parties influence foreign policy in federal democracies with
multiparty coalition governments? The existing literature has focused on situations of foreign …

The article contributes to the growing debate on parliamentary war powers and shows how
parliaments matter in sha** both force deployment and force employment. Through …

While a comprehensive body of research provides evidence that politics does not always
stop at the water's edge, the question “when does politics stop at the water's edge” has …

The article takes stock of German foreign policy under the Merkel IV government and adopts
an analytical perspective that zooms in on the role of coalition politics. Specifically, it …