In the past three decades, the world has witnessed many rapid and invasive changes, and seems to be changing countries have adapted their foreign policies to these changes. Building on a clear typology of foreign policy change and a consistent theoretical framework, this book offers a comparative analysis of foreign policy change in Europe throughout the post-Cold War period. Along the lines of our analytical framework, country experts discuss how and why the further ever more rapidly in ways that seemed only imaginable in movies. This book investigates how European foreign policies of eleven European countries have changed over the past thirty years. This book hereby advances our understanding of the phenomenon of foreign policy change and identifies the most important drivers and inhibitors of change.

Jeroen K. Joly is Lecturer in Geopolitics at Saint-Louis University Brussels and Associated Researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. His research focuses on the interplay between domestic and international politics and has been published in Political Communication, Cooperation and Conflict, and Foreign Policy Analysis.

Tim Haesebrouck is Researcher at Ghent University, Belgium. His research interests include military intervention, defense burden sharing and foreign policy analysis. His work has been published in the Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research, Foreign Policy Analysis, Journal of European Public Policy and European Political Science Review.

1 Introduction: Foreign Policy Change, Tim Haesebrouck and Jeroen K. Joly 2 Belgian Foreign Policy. In Foro Interno, Inferno?, Jeroen K. Joly and Tim Haesebrouck3 Czech Foreign Policy After the Velvet Revolution, Zdenk Kí¸, Martin Chovaník and Odich Krpec4 Danish Foreign Policy: Continuity and Change in the Post-Cold War Period, Henrik Larsen5 Finnish Foreign Policy: Pragmatic Adjustment to a Changing World Order, Tapio Raunio6 French Foreign Policy: Make France Great Again, Friederike Richter and Martial Foucault7 German Foreign Policy, Patrick A. Mello8 Italian Foreign Policy: Still the Days Seem the Same?, Fabrizio Coticchia and Valerio Vignoli9 Dutch Foreign Policy: Staying the Course Amid a Changing World, Niels van Willigen10 Polish Foreign Policy: From Go To Player to Territorial Defender, Laura Chappell11 Spanish Foreign Policy: Navigating Global Shifts and Domestic Crises, Eduard Soler i Lecha and Esther Barbé12 British Foreign Policy Since the End of the Cold War, Andrew M. Dorman13 Conclusion: Grasping Foreign Policy Change, Klaus Brummer and Kai Oppermann