Chatham House sponsored roundtable II: Domestic Politics and Foreign Policies: Interests, Articulation, Content and Impact

Wednesday 23 Jun 2021, 16:00 → 17:30 Europe/London

Join us at our 2021 conference for this free public roundtable featuring experts on domestic politics and foreign policy. One of three free events at #BISA2021.

It has become conventional wisdom that domestic political interests, popular attitudes and movements are inserting themselves in new ways in foreign policy from Brazil to the EU to India to the United States.  But is this process different from the past ways in which domestic interests and sentiment influenced foreign policies?  Is it possible that just the voices and constituencies have shifted and not the ways those have been articulated and their concrete impact on public debate over foreign policy and specific policies?  Using case studies in Europe, the Americas and Asia, this roundtable will explore three key questions:  1) to what extent are domestic politics shaping foreign policy decisions?  2) to what extent is the influence of domestic politics and constituencies different then in the past? and 3) in what ways are these trends provoking rhetorical, symbolic and – most important – substantive changes in foreign policies?  

Speakers

• Angelos Chryssogelos (London Metropolitan University)

• Elena Lazarou (European Parliamentary Research Service)

• Christopher Sabatini (Chatham House)

Chair:

• Renata Dwan (Chatham House)

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