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This succinct yet comprehensive introduction to Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is geared toward advanced undergraduate and beginning graduate students. Cogently written, clearly organized, and filled with illuminating examples, the third edition has been thoroughly revised and updated. Beginning with an overview of this broad field of study, Hudson and Day consider theory and research at multiple levels of analysis, including personality and psychology of foreign policy decision makers, small group dynamics, the organizational process, bureaucratic politics, domestic politics, cultural and societal influences, national attributes, and system-level effects on foreign policy. The authors also examine the promise and frustration of theoretical integration in FPA and overview promising new work by non-North American scholars.
List of contents
PART I. Overview and Evolution of Foreign Policy Analysis
1. Introduction: The Situation and Evolution of Foreign Policy Analysis: A Road Map
PART II. Levels of Analysis
2. The Individual Decisionmaker: The Political Psychology of World Leaders
3. Group Decisionmaking: Small Group Dynamics, Organizational Process, and Bureaucratic Politics
4. Culture and National Identity
5. Domestic Politics
6. The Levels of National Attributes and International System: Effects on Foreign Policy
PART III. Putting It All Together, or Not
7. Theoretical Integration in Foreign Policy Analysis
8. The Future of Foreign Policy Analysis
About the author
Valerie M. Hudson is professor and George H. W. Bush Chair at the Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.
Benjamin Day is associate lecturer in the department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, Australian National University
Summary
Ideal for courses on foreign policy analysis and international relations theory, the third edition offers advanced undergraduates and beginning graduate students a cogently written overview of this broad field of study. Filled with illuminating examples, Hudson and Day consider theory and research at multiple levels of analysis.
