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The Interweaving of Foreign and Domestic Policy‐Making

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 March 2014

Geraint Parry
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These Words Spoken By President Clinton At His Inauguration on 20 January 1993 can usefully serve as a leitmotif for the present issue of the journal Government and Opposition. The issue is itself the outcome of a conference organized by the journal and the Department of Government of the University of Manchester. The theme was the ‘Influences of Domestic and International Factors on Processes of Policy-Making’. However, this title does not quite catch the interactive quality of the phenomenon which the group was seeking to examine. Increasingly, it has been contended, policies at the domestic level whether in what we once called the first, second or third worlds are being profoundly influenced by international or ‘global’ considerations. But it is also the case that international agreements are being accommodated to the sensitivities of the domestic politics of the partners.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 28 , Issue 2 , 01 April 1993 , pp. 143 - 151
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Copyright © Government and Opposition Ltd 1993

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1 The conference was held at Holly Royde College, University of Manchester 12 – 13 December 1992. It was supported by a grant from The Nuffield Foundation which is gratefully acknowledged. In addition to those whose papers are published in this issue the participants were: Professor M. Biddiss, University of Reading; Dr Simon Buhner, University of Manchester; Professor R. Dore, London School of Economics; Baroness EUes, House of Lords; Professor A. Gamble, University of Sheffield; Dr Philip Gummett, University of Manchester; Professor Richard Higgott, Australian National University; Mrs Rosalind Jones, Government and Opposition; Professor Isabel de Madariaga, University of London; Professor Michael Moran, University of Manchester; Professor John Pinder, College of Europe, Bruges; Dr John Street, University of East Anglia; Professor Stephen Wilks, University of Exeter; Mr Philip Whyte, Bank of England.

A summary of the discussion of each paper at the conference is included in the issue. Mr Ricardo Blaug, University of Manchester, acted as rapporteur.

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