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identity may be decisive for the success of the EU’s normative power in world
politics.” 64
Among the many subtle influences of domestic structures on foreign
policy is one in which not just systemic models—democracy or the free
market—make an impact on other actors in the international system. The
existence of harmonious relations between majority and Muslim populations at
home can have a demonstration effect and be more meaningful to enhancing
French influence abroad than many forms of traditional diplomacy. Conversely,
French Islamophobia, such as it is, may not be an influential factor in shaping
a country’s international politics, but it can have a spoiler effect.
Notes
1 Juliet Kaarbo, Jeffrey S. Lantis, and Ryan K. Beasley, “The Analysis of Foreign Policy
in Comparative Perspective,” in Beasley, Kaarbo, Lantis, and Michael T. Snarr (eds.),
Foreign Policy in Comparative Perspective: Domestic and International Influences on
State Behavior (Washington, DC: CQ Press, 2002), 13.
2 Kaarbo, Lantis, and Beasley, “The Analysis of Foreign Policy in Comparative
Perspective,” 14.
3 Ronald Rogowski, “Institutions as Constraints on Strategic Choice,” in David A. Lake
and Robert Powell (eds.), Strategic Choice and International Relations (Princeton, NJ:
Princeton University Press, 1999), 133.
4 F.G. Bailey, Treasons, Strategems, and Spoils: How Leaders Make Practical Use of
Beliefs and Values (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2001), 9.
5 Bailey, Treasons, Strategems, and Spoils, 8.
6 The most recent major study is by Richard Ned Lebow, A Cultural Theory of
International Relations (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009).
7 Valerie M. Hudson, Foreign Policy Analysis: Classic and Contemporary Theory
(Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2006), 104.
8 Hudson, Foreign Policy Analysis, 109-110.
9 As with the semantics of rendering Marx’s statement that the economic base
determines/shapes/conditions the ideological superstructure, so too culture’s impact
on foreign policy can be that of determining, shaping, or conditioning—depending on
how much causality we choose to impute.
10 K.F. Wilkening, “Culture and Japanese Citizen Influence on the Transboundary Air
Pollution Issue in Northeast Asia,” Political Psychology 20, no. 4 (1999), 8.
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