This handbook on global international policy is one in a set of six global policy handbooks. The other five deal with economic, technology, social, political, and legal policy. Public policy studies in the past have tended to emphasize domestic policy rather than cross-national policy. This has been especially true of American policy studies, which tend to be especially nation-bound. This is also true, to some extent, of policy studies in France, Russia, China, Brazil, and elsewhere. When American policy studies show an interest in other countries, these other countries tend to be exclusively Western European countries. This sixvolume set, however, will include all the regions of the world, consisting.
