The Price of Power: Risk and Foreign Policy in Britain, France and Germany

Part 1 Power - issues and questions power and the search for a general explanation of politics power as resource-dependent statecraft. Part 2 A theoretical approach: risk and policy choice the politics of extraction research design issues and choices. Part 3 Resource-dependent statecraft from the 1870s to 1914: the German empire Britain France in the third republic. Part 4 Resource-dependent statecraft into the 1980s France in the fourth and fifth republics Britain from Attlee to Thatcher the federal republic of Germany. Part 5 Conclusions and implications: the domestic politics of resource-dependent statecraft.