WILL AND CIRCUMSTANCE AND THE POSTWAR STUDY OF CANADA FOREIGN-POLICY

Authors
STAIRS D
Citation
D. Stairs, WILL AND CIRCUMSTANCE AND THE POSTWAR STUDY OF CANADA FOREIGN-POLICY, INT J, 50(1), 1995, pp. 9-39
Citations number
72
Categorie Soggetti
International Relations
Journal title
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL → ACNP
ISSN journal
00207020
Volume
50
Issue
1
Year of publication
1995
Pages
9 - 39
Database
ISI
SICI code
0020-7020(1995)50:1<9:WACATP>2.0.ZU;2-A
Abstract
Modern political science rejects, correctly, the notion that one man c an make his country's foreign policy just as he pleases. Modern politi cal science asserts, correctly, that behind every 'output,' or policy decision, there lurk a dozen 'inputs'-the economy, opinion, military m ight and morale, political structure, political culture, competing eli tes, and all the others - that constrain the would-be foreign policyma ker on horseback.