Week 3

Making Foreign Policy The tutorial will focus on the making of foreign policy and Australia-US relations. Is foreign policy making rational? Is there a national interest? Policy making institutions and actors, bureaucratic politics.

Readings

§ Firth, 2005, ch. 4, ‘The Making of Foreign Policy’.

§ Gyngell A. & Wesley, M. 2007, (2nd edn) Making Australian Foreign Policy, CUP, Australia. ch. 4 ‘The Foreign Policy Bureaucracy’.

§ Hubbard, C. 2008, An Australian Introduction to International Relations, Pearson, Australia ch. 5, ‘Decision Making in Foreign Policy’.

§ Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Annual Report 08/09 available on line at: http//www.dfat.gov.au/dept/annual_report/08

§ Kegley, C.W. Jr. & Wittkopf, E.R. 2006, World Politics: Trend and Transformation, 10th edn, Thompson, Wadsworth, USA, ch. 3, ‘Foreign Policy Decision Making’.

§ McDougall, D, 1998, Australian Foreign Relations, ch. 2, 'The Domestic Context'. Australia-US Relations

§ Beeson, Mark, 2003, ‘Australia’s Relationship with the United States: The Case for Greater Independence’, Australian Journal of Political Science, V. 38, No 3.

§ Bell R. 2007 ‘Extreme Allies’ ‘Australia and the USA’, ch. 2 in J. Cotton & J. Ravenhill, Trading on Alliance Security OUP, Australia.

§ McDougal, D. (1998) ch. 3 ‘The United States’ in Australian Foreign Relations.

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De här ska jag ha läst innan lektionen i övermorgon....mer än vad jag läst under senaste månaderna sammanlagt.

Bara att hitta böckerna i biblioteket tar ju en evighet eller två.

de går bra nu...

Har ju inte alls tre kurser till med lektioner och läsning..

Tyck synd om mig.

Tack.