Foreign Policy Breakthroughs: Cases in Successful Diplomacy

299 Pages·2015·4.62 MB·English

by  Robert Hutchings

Foreign Policy Breakthroughs

Foreign Policy
Breakthroughs
Cases in Successful Diplomacy
EDITED BY ROBERT HUTCHINGS
and
JEREMI SURI
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Foreign policy breakthroughs : cases in successful diplomacy / edited by Robert Hutchings and Jeremi Suri.
p. cm.
Summary: “Diplomacy is essential to the conduct of foreign policy and international business in the twenty-
first century. Yet, few international actors are trained to understand or practice effective diplomacy. Poor
diplomacy has contributed to repeated setbacks for the United States and other major powers in the last
decade. Drawing on deep historical research, this book aims to ‘reinvent’ diplomacy for our current era. The
original and comparative research provides a foundation for thinking about what successful outreach, nego-
tiation, and relationship-building with foreign actors should look like. Instead of focusing only on failures, as
most studies do, this one interrogates success. The book provides a framework for defining successful diplo-
macy and implementing it in diverse contexts. Chapters analyze the activities of diverse diplomats (including
state and non-state actors) in enduring cases, including: post-WWII relief, the rise of the non-aligned move-
ment, the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, the U.S. opening to China, the Camp David Accords, the reunifi-
cation of Germany, the creation of the European Union, the completion of the North American Free Trade
Agreement, and relief aid to pre-2001 Afghanistan. The cases are diverse and historical, but they are written
with an eye toward contemporary challenges and opportunities. The book closes with systematic reflections
on how current diplomats can improve their activities abroad. Foreign Policy Breakthroughs offers rigorous
historical insights for present policy”— Provided by publisher.
Summary: “This book provides a framework for defining successful diplomacy and implementing it in di-
verse contexts”— Provided by publisher.
ISBN 978–0–19–022611–4 (hardback) — ISBN 978–0–19–022612–1 (paperback) 1. Diplomacy—
History—20th century—Case studies. 2. Diplomacy—History—21st century—Case studies. 3. World
politics—1945–1989—Case studies. 4. World politics—1989—Case studies. I. Hutchings, Robert L.,
1946– editor of compilation. II. Suri, Jeremi, editor of compilation.
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Printed in the United States of America on acid free paper
To Kim and Alison

CONTENTS
About the Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xiii
1. Introduction 1
robert hutchings and jeremi suri
2. Humanitarian Diplomacy after World War II: The United Nations
Relief and Rehabilitation Administration 21
stephen r. porter
3. The Rise of Third World Diplomacy: Success and Its Meanings at the
1955 Asian-African Conference in Bandung, Indonesia 47
christopher j. lee
4. The Birth of an International Community: Negotiating the Treaty
on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons 72
jonathan hunt
5. From Isolation to Engagement: American Diplomacy and the Opening
to China, 1969–1972 101
jeremi suri
6. Sadat and Begin: Successful Diplomacy to Peace 121
galia golan
7. American Diplomacy and the End of the Cold War in Europe 148
robert hutchings
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8. The European Union as a Community of Law: Achieving Diplomatic
Goals through Legal Means? 173
mark dawson
9. Economic Statecraft through the Use of Two-Level Games: Mexico’s
Successful Diplomacy in NAFTA and the Pacific Alliance 201
rafael fernández de castro and beatriz leycegui
10. Displaced Diplomacies: Reframing Development and
Humanitarianism in Taliban-Era Afghanistan 226
paula r. newberg
11. Conclusion 254
robert hutchings and jeremi suri
Index 269
ABout tHE contRiButoRs
Rafael Fernández de Castro
Rafael de Castro Medina is the Founding Chair of the Department of Interna-
tional Studies at Mexico’s Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México
(ITAM). He holds the Jay and Debe Moskowitz Chair at Syracuse University’s
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. He served as foreign policy
adviser to Mexican President Felipe Calderón. His work focuses on Mexican
foreign policy, Mexico-U.S. relations, and issues of economic development
and political economy. He is also founding editor of Foreign Affairs Latino-
america and has published numerous articles and books, including The United
States and Mexico: Between Partnership and Conflict (with Jorge I. Dominguez).
He was the coordinator for the UNDP’s 2013–14 Human Development
Report, Citizen Security with a Human Face: Evidence and Proposals for Latin
America. Fernández de Castro holds a Ph.D. in political science from George-
town University as well as an MPAff from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of
Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.
Mark Dawson
Mark Dawson is the Professor for European Law and Governance at the Hertie
School of Governance in Berlin. He holds degrees from the Universities of Ed-
inburgh and Aberdeen as well as a Ph.D. from the European University Insti-
tute in Florence. He has been a visiting scholar at the Institute for Global Legal
Studies of the University of Wisconsin and a Visiting Fellow at the Harvard
Kennedy School. Before joining the Hertie School, he was an Assistant Profes-
sor at Maastricht University. His research has focused on the relationship in
the EU between law and policymaking—he recently published a book on
“New Governance and the Transformation of European Law” (Cambridge
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