Power Sharing, Plural Governance, and Foreign Policy Success in a Globalizing Asia

In this book, foreign policy is defined as explicit and inferable preferences for keeping the status quo in domestic or international aspects of world politics, for changing current power arrangements somewhat, or for upsetting them considerably. But whose preferences? Despite the distaste of John Locke's disciples for citizen power in diplomacy and world politics, it is too late to tum back the clock to the seventeenth century. Foreign policy making has escaped the executive suite preserve of presidents, foreign ministers and other elected or appointed government officials. As this book demonstrates, plural social governance in foreign policy making reveals itself in a variety of issues, for example, regional cooperation, military relations and foreign aid.