This book analyses the salience of foreign and security policy issues to domestic actors, its role in the analysis of international politics and its consequences for foreign policy decision-making. It features studies on Western Europe and North America and addresses European Integration, Foreign and Security Policy and Transatlantic Relations.

Introduction 1. Analyzing Issue Salience in International Politics: Theoretical Foundations and Methodological Approaches Kai Oppermann and Catherine E. de Vries Public Opinion 2. Two Indicators, One Conclusion: On the Public Salience of Foreign Affairs in Germany Before and After Reunification Harald Schoen 3. Familiarity Breeds Consent: Issue Salience and Support for the Use of Military Force Philip Everts 4. Issue Salience, Political Affiliation and the Use of Force: Germany in Comparative Perspective Jörg Jacobs 5. Salience as Priming: A Latent Class Regression Approach to EU Issue Voting in England Marco R. Steenbergen 6. How Does a Threat Become Salient? The Case of Swine Flu in Sweden Roxanna Sjöstedt Intermediary Actors: The Media and Political Parties 7. Integrating Salience and Interpretation: A Constructivist Approach to Media Framing in the Post-Cold War Era Josef Seethaler and Gabriele Melischek 8. The Salience of Frames and their Effects on the Support for CFSP and Supranational Policy Allocation Claes H. de Vreese and Thomas Klausch 9. EU Media Salience, Instrumental Thinking and Identification with the EU Florian Stöckel 10. Experts Mistaken? The Salience of European Integration in Austrian National Election Campaigns in 2006 and 2008 Sarah Meyer 11. EU Issue Salience and Domestic Party Competition Catherine E. de Vries and Marc van de Wardt Political Elites 12. The Cognitive Dimension of Parliamentary Influence: Trends in the Salience of Foreign Affairs Issues in the German Bundestag, 2005-10 Thomas Jäger, Kai Oppermann, Alexander Höse and Henrike Viehrig 13. Salient Issues in German Foreign Policy: Results from a 2009 Elite Survey Henning Riecke 14. The Salience of European Affairs in the United States Congress Alexander Höse 15. An Actor-Based Measure of Issue Salience: Information Acquisition and the Case of the United States Supreme Court Ryan C. Black, Amanda C. Bryan and Timothy R. Johnson Conclusion 16. Analyzing Issue Salience in International Politics: Preliminary Findings and Open Questions Henrike Viehrig and Kai Oppermann

Kai Oppermann and Henrike Viehrig are Assistant Professors at the Institute for Political Science and European Affairs, University of Cologne, Germany