Part 1 Introduction Chapter 2 "In the Service of Peace": Reflexive Multilateralism and the Canadian Experience in Bosnia Chapter 3 British Attitudes toward the Bosnian Situation Chapter 4 U.S. Public Opinion on Intervention in Bosnia Chapter 5 Raison d'état or Raison populaire? The Influence of Public Opinion on France's Bosnia Policy Chapter 6 Russian Decision-making Regarding Bosnia: Indifferent Public and Feuding Elites Chapter 7 Massacring in Front of a Blind Audience? Italian Public Opinion and Bosnia Chapter 8 Innocence Lost: The Netherlands and the Yugoslav Crisis Chapter 9 German Public Opinion and the Crisis in Bosnia Part 10 Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis: A Conclusion
Eric Shiraev is a research associate at The George Washington University's Institute for European, Russian, and Eurasian Studies. He is the editor of a number of books including Fears in Post-Communist Societies (with V. Shlapentokh, 2002). Richard Sobel is a senior research associate in Harvard University's Program in Psychiatry and the Law. He is the author and editor of a number of books including The Impact of Public Opinion on U.S. Foreign Policy Since Vietnam: Constraining the Collossus (2001).
. . . this is an excellent book, one that belongs on a short list
of indispensable recent books on public opinion and foreign policy.
. . .
*H-Net: Humanities and Social Science Reviews Online*
In this highly original volume, Richard Sobel and Eric Shiraev
advance research and theory in the study of public opinion and
foreign policy. International Public Opinion and the Bosnia Crisis
is unique in that it tracks a single foreign policy crisis across
different countries. Following Ole Holsti's apt advice, the
contributors use cross-national data and other evidence to look at
the extent to which public opinion influenced foreign policy in a
critical case. Editors Sobel and Shiraev offer a necessarily
complex theoretical framework, befitting the complexities of the
different forms of contemporary democratic politics and the foreign
policies that have to be wrestled with, which they, their
contributors, and others of us will want to debate, criticize, and
build upon or alter. In doing this we can attempt both to advance
political science theory and to improve our understanding of
real-world politics and, ideally, to provide guidance as nations
individually and interactively confront new crises and wars.
*Robert Y. Shapiro, Columbia University*
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