POLI 304 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Daniel Baldwin, Fungibility

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Political Sc
• Course: POLI 304
• Professor: Norrin Ripsman

Document Summary

This chapter will focus on the nature of statecraft, the scholarly neglect of this topic, ways to clarify techniques of statecraft, and the relationship between the statecraft perspective and the perspectives of foreign policy, international politics, and policy science. In addition, some objections to the statecraft orientation will be considered. Statecraft has traditionally been defined as the art of conducting state affairs: includes both domestic and foreign, but mainly used by students talking about foreign policy. Harold and sprout definition: statecraft embraces all the activities by which statesmen strive to protect cherished values and to attain desired objectives vis- - vis other nations and/or international organizations. Holsti definition: statecraft as the organized actions governments take to change the external environment in general, or the policies and actions of other states in particular, to achieve the objectives that have been set by policy makers.