This edited volume analyzes mistakes in different areas of international relations including the realms of security, foreign policy, finance, health, development, environmental policy and migration. By starting out from a broad concept of mistakes as ¿something [considered to have] gone wrong¿ the edited volume enables comparisons of various kinds of mistakes from a range of analytical perspectives, including objectivist and interpretivist approaches, in order to draw out answers to the following guiding questions:¿ How does one identify and research a mistake?¿ Why do mistakes happen? ¿ How are actors made responsible?¿ When and how do actors learn from mistakes?This book will be of great interest to scholars, undergraduate and postgraduate students as well as practitioners in International Relations, Foreign Policy Analysis, Security Studies, International Political Economy, and Diplomatic History.

Includes both chapters which consider mistakes to be objective facts as well as chapters which consider mistakes to be social constructions

1. Andreas Kruck, Kai Oppermann & Alexander Spencer: Introduction: Mistakes in International Relations.- Part I: Mistakes in Security and Foreign Policy.- 2. Timothy Legrand & Michael Lister: Mistakes in Counter Terrorism: Policy and Collateral Damage.- 3. Kai Oppermann & Alexander Spencer: Narrative Constructions of Mistakes: Germany's Refusal to Support Military Intervention in Libya.- 4. Mischa Hansel, Henrike Viehrig, Danae Ankel: Where Berlin Got It Terribly Wrong: German Foreign Policy Fiascos in the News Media.- Part II: Mistakes in Economics & Finance.- 5. Bart Paudyn: The Immunity Risk Provides Markets and Regulators from the Consequences of their Mistakes: The Reconstitution of Speculation as Investment and Regulatory Passivity.- 6. Andreas Kruck: Credit Rating Agencies and the Politics of Dealing with Private Governance Failures.- Part III: Mistakes in Health & Development.- 7. Adam Kamradt-Scott: What went wrong? The World Health Organization from Swine Flu to Ebola.- 8. Jonathan Fisher: 'Success' and 'Failure' in UK International Development Policy: Aid Suspensions and 'Political Conditionality' Since the Cold War.- 9. Tim Lankester: Mistakes in Large-Scale Development Projects: British Aid for the Pergau Hydroelectric Project in Malaysia.- Part IV: Mistakes in Environmental Policy & Migration.- 10. Antto Vihma: The 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference: Mistakes Prior and During the Meeting.- 11. James Hampshire: A Successful Failure: The Curious Case of British Immigration Policy.- Part V: Mistakes in and around International Organizations.- 12. Oliver Daddow: Policy-making in the Pub: New Labour's European Policy 'Failure'.- 13. Berthold Rittberger, Helena Schwarzenbeck & Bernhard Zangl: International Organizations and the Attribution of Blame for Policy Failures: The Case of EU Border Control Policies.- 14. Andreas Kruck, Kai Oppermann & Alexander Spencer: Conclusion: What Can We Learn from (the Study of) Mistakes?