Moral Movements and Foreign Policy

Why do advocacy campaigns succeed in some cases but fail in others? What conditions motivate states to accept commitments championed by principled advocacy movements? Joshua Busby sheds light on these core questions through an investigation of four cases - developing country debt relief, climate change, AIDS, and the International Criminal Court - in the G-7 advanced industrialized countries (Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States). Drawing on hundreds of interviews with policy practitioners, he employs qualitative, comparative case study methods, including process-tracing and typologies, and develops a framing/gatekeepers argument, emphasizing the ways in which advocacy campaigns use rhetoric to tap into the main cultural currents in the countries where they operate. Busby argues that when values and costs potentially pull in opposing directions, values will win if domestic gatekeepers who are able to block policy change believe that the values at stake are sufficiently important.

Author: Joshua W. Busby
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 07/29/2010
Pages: 348
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.45lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780521768726

About the Author
Busby, Joshua W.: - Joshua W. Busby is an Assistant Professor of Public Affairs and a fellow in the RGK Center for Philanthropy and Community Service as well as a Crook Distinguished Scholar at the Robert S. Strauss Center for International Security and Law. He originally joined the LBJ School faculty in fall 2006 as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer. Prior to coming to the University of Texas, Dr Busby was a research fellow at the Center for Globalization and Governance at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School (2005-2006), the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's JFK School (2004-2005) and the Foreign Policy Studies program at the Brookings Institution (2003-2004). He defended his dissertation with distinction in summer 2004 from Georgetown University, where he also earned his MA in 2002. He has written extensively on transatlantic relations, both in international security and the climate change arena, and is the author of several studies on climate change, national security and energy policy from the Council on Foreign Relations, the Brookings Institution and CNAS. His research interests also include US grand strategy, energy security and the foreign policy of advanced industrialized countries. Dr Busby is a Term Member in the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and his works have appeared in Perspectives on Politics, Security Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Current History and Problems of Post-Communism, among other publications. Dr Busby also has a regional interest in Latin America, having served in the Peace Corps in Ecuador (1997-1999), worked in Nicaragua (Summer 1994, Spring 1996) and consulted for the Inter-American Development Bank (2000). Prior to working with the Peace Corps, he was a Marshall Scholar at the University of East Anglia (Norwich, England), where he completed a second BA (with Honors) in Development Studies (1993-1995). He completed his first BA