This book presents the evolution of the field of foreign policy analysis and explains the theories that have structured research in this area over the last 50 years. It provides the essentials of emerging theoretical trends, data and methodological pitfalls and major case-studies and is designed to be a key entry point for graduate students, upper-level undergraduates and scholars into the discipline. The volume features an eclectic panorama of different conceptual, theoretical and methodological approaches to foreign political analysis, focusing on different models of analysis such as two-level game analysis, bureaucratic politics, strategic culture, cybernetics, poliheuristic analysis, cognitive mapping, gender studies, groupthink and the systemic sources of foreign policy. The authors also clarify conceptual notions such as doctrines, ideologies and national interest, through the lenses of foreign policy analysis.
1.What is Foreign Policy Analysis?
What is a Policy??
When a Policy Becomes Foreign
An Array of Explanations?
The Levels of Analysis and the Evolution in FPA
A Toolbox for Studying FPA?
2. How to Identify and Assess a Foreign Policy?
The Goals of Foreign Policy
--The Goals Communicated?
--Doctrine
--National Interest
--Deducing the Goals Pursued
Mobilized Resources
--Resources
--The Power Paradox
--Mobilization and Exploitation
Instruments of Foreign Policy
--Socialization
--Coercion
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