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Feedback Loops as Links between Foreign Policy and International Relations: The US War on Terror

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Even in a globalized world, states persist and continue to pursue foreign policies. Yet the analysis of these foreign polices has become more difficult and the confines of the disciplines we are working in are not always helpful in addressing these difficulties. As the boundaries between the internal and external become increasingly blurry and states become more and more enmeshed in their global environment, the relation between foreign policy and international environment becomes more immediate. State policies are more directly affected by the international environment, but they, in turn, also have a more immediate impact on this environment themselves. Consequently, feedback between states’ foreign policies and their external environments is apparent in many policy fields such as climate policy, Western interventionism and the global financial crisis.

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Gadinger, F., Peters, D. (2015). Feedback Loops as Links between Foreign Policy and International Relations: The US War on Terror. In: Hellmann, G., Jørgensen, K.E. (eds) Theorizing Foreign Policy in a Globalized World. Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431912_8

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