Geopolitics and foreign policy in small, federal states: the case of the Belgium's federal and regional governments

Abstract: The geopolitical approach to the study of the foreign policy of a country offers interesting insights into the process via which (governmental) elites perceive the place of their country in the world, and deduce from this certain geopolitical priorities and/or missions. In this paper, we study the case of Belgium. In this country, foreign policy is still conducted by the Belgian federal government, but since 1993 the regional governments of Flanders and Wallonia have been granted unparalleled possibilities to develop their own respective foreign policies, and therefore also their own... Mehr ...