The study of foreign policy is usually concerned with the interaction of states, and thus with governance structures which emerged either with the socalled Westphalian system or in the course of the 18th century diplomacy and international law. As a result, examining foreign policy in earlier periods involves conceptual and terminological difficulties, which echo current debates on postnational foreign policy actors like the European Union or global cities. This volume argues that a novel understanding of what constitutes foreign policy may offer a way out of this problem. It considers foreign policy as the outcome of processes that make some boundaries different from others, and set those that separate communities in an internal space apart from those that mark foreignness. The creation of such boundaries, which can be observed at all times, designates specific actors which can be, but do not have to be, states as capable of engaging in foreign policy. As such boundaries are likely to be contested, they are unlikely to provide either a single or a simple distinction between insides and outsides. In this view, multiple layers of foreignpolicy actors with different characteristics appear less as a modern development and more as a perennial aspect of foreign policy. In a broad perspective stretching from early Greek polities to presentday global cities, the volume offers a theoretical and empirical presentation of this concept by political scientists, jurists, and historians.

Binding: Hardcover;318 pages; Publisher: Oxford University Press; Classification: HBG; Weight: 706 g; Dimensions: 164 x 246 x 25

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