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Understanding the complexities of international politics increasingly demands an awareness of domestic politics and their institutional frameworks. Similarly, political processes within national boundaries are hard to disentangle without reference to the international environment in which they occur. This applies as much to the policy practitioner as to the analyst, since appreciating the actual — and the potential — linkages, between what have been regarded traditionally as relatively discrete levels of political activity impinges on the achievement of policy objectives.

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Hocking, B. (1993). Introduction. In: Localizing Foreign Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-22963-5_1

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