Political Mistakes and Policy Failures in International Relations

1. Introduction: Mistakes and Failures in International Relations
Andreas Kruck, Kai Oppermann, Alexander Spencer

Part I. Foreign and Security Policy

2. From Precaution to Prejudice: Mistakes in Counter-terrorism
Timothy Legrand, Michael Lister

3. The Social Construction of Mistakes: Germany’s Abstention on UN Security Council Resolution 1973 on Libya
Kai Oppermann, Alexander Spencer

4. Where Berlin Got It Terribly Wrong: German Foreign Policy Fiascos in the News Media
Mischa Hansel, Henrike Viehrig, Danae Ankel

5. Policymaking in the Pub: New Labour’s European Policy Failure
Oliver Daddow

Part II. International Political Economy

6. Private Governance Failures and Their Consequences: Towards Enhanced Legal Control of Private Authorities in Finance and Security?
Andreas Kruck

7. The ‘Get Out of Jail Card’: The Immunity Risk Provides Financial Markets and Regulators from the Consequences of Their Mistakes
Bartholomew Paudyn

8. The European Blame Game: Explaining Public Responsibility Attributions in the European Union
Tim Heinkelmann-Wild, Berthold Rittberger, Bernhard Zangl

Part III. International Public Policy

9. What Went Wrong? The World Health Organization from Swine Flu to Ebola
Adam Kamradt-Scott

10. ‘Success’ and ‘Failure’ in International Development: Assessing Evolving UK Objectives in Conditional Aid Policy Since the Cold War
Jonathan Fisher

11. When Foreign Aid and Wider Foreign Policy Goals Clash: The Pergau Dam Affair
Tim Lankester

12. ‘First as Tragedy…’: Mistakes, Blaming and Learning at the Copenhagen Climate Conference
Antto Vihma

13. On the Indeterminacy of Policy Mistakes: Lessons from British Immigration Policy
James Hampshire

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Comparative Politics, Foreign Policy, Public Policy, Political Communication