An historically wide-ranging new approach to the study of foreign policy.

• 1: Andreas Fahrmeir, Gunther Hellmann and Miloš Vec: Introduction


• Part I: Theorizing Foreign Policy: Actorhood and Boundaries


• 2: Gunther Hellman, Andreas Fahrmeir, and Miloš Vec: The Transformation of Foreign Policy: Legal Framework,Historiography, and Theory


• 3: Gunther Hellmann: Foreign Policy: Concept, Vocabulary, and Practice


• 4: Miloš Vec: Inside/Outside(s): Conceptualizations, Criteria, and Functions of a Dichotomy in 19th-Century International Legal Doctrine


• Part II: The Governance of Intercommunal Relations in Antiquity


• 5: Hans Beck: Between Demarcation and Integration: The Context of Foreign Policy in Ancient Greece


• 6: Hartmut Leppin: Aspects of the Christianisation of Foreign Policy in Late Antiquity: The Impact of Religious Universalism


• Part III: Uncertainty and Transition within the "Westphalian System": Normative Patterns and Practices between and beyond Sovereign States


• 7: Andreas Fahrmeir: Fragile Boundaries and Personal Actors: The Nineteenth Century as a Period of Transformation


• 8: Luigi Nuzzo: Spatial and Temporal Dimensions of Legal History: International Law, Foreign Policy and the Construction of a Legal Order


• 9: Verena Steller: Back to the Future: Rediscovery of Diplomatic Conduct and the Moment of Foreign Policy Transformation: Diplomacy between Versailles and Locarno, 1919-25


• Part IV: Alternative Authorities in Intercommunal Relations and International Law


• 10: Janne E. Nijman: Renaissance of the City as Global Actor: The Role of Foreign Policy and International Law Practices in the Construction of Cities as Global Actors


• 11: Christer Jönsson: States Only?: The Evolution of Diplomacy


• 12: Paul Sharp: Domestic Public Diplomacy, Domestic Diplomacy, and Domestic Foreign Policy


• Part V: Conclusions


• 13: Gunther Hellman, Andreas Fahrmeir, and Miloš Vec: The Multiple and Changing Purposes of Foreign Policy

Gunther Hellmann is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences and Principal Investigator in the Centre of Excellence 'Formation of Normative Orders', both at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. His research interests are in the fields of foreign policy analysis, especially German and European foreign policy, international security, esp. transatlantic and European security, and international relations theory. He is one of the editors of Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen (ZIB).; Andreas Fahrmeir is Professor of Modern History at Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main. He is a principal investigator with the 'Normative Orders' research cluster and co-editor of the Historische Zeitschrift.; Miloš Vec is Professor of Legal and Constitutional History at the University of Vienna. He is co-editor with Thomas Hippler of Paradoxes of Peace in Nineteenth Century Europe (OUP, 2015).