Diplomacy and Developing Nations: Post-Cold War Foreign Policy-Making Structures and Processes

This volume explores the foreign policy environment facing developing nations and their particular foreign policy-making structures and processes. By defining foreign policy broadly to incorporate the activities of a range of state actors and non-state actors, the book broadens the range of analytical frameworks for studying foreign policy-making in developing nations. Thus, the actions of small groups of elites, international institutions and transnational networks are seen to be part of foreign policy-making, as well as the traditional operations of foreign ministries.
The volume is comprised of an extensive introduction, four thematic chapters, six country studies and a conclusion that ties together common themes. These serve as a useful contribution to the analysis of foreign policy-making in developing nations, a neglected area in the comparative study of foreign policy.

Maurice A. East is Professor of International Affairs and Political Science in the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University.
Justin Robertson is a PhD Candidate in Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick and a Graduate Research Assistant in the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.