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The second edition of this introductory textbook on foreign policy analysis focuses on the key explanatory factors that underlie the foreign policies of states and other actors to show how theory can illuminate practice. Genuinely international in scope and drawing on a wide range of examples, it provides an accessible introduction to the key elements of foreign policy analysis to explain, predict and evaluate what states and other collective actors want, how they make decisions, and key determinants of state security, diplomatic, and economic foreign policies. Providing a broad set of theoretical tools for analysing foreign policy, and including increased coverage of methodology, this new edition provides students with the skills to undertake their own foreign policy analysis.
List of contents
1. Introduction
2. Research Questions and the Use of Theory
3. Choosing an Appropriate Research Strategy
4. System Level Factors
5. Domestic Factors
6. Understandings of the Choice Situation
7. Making Foreign Policy
8. What States Do: Security Policies
9 What States Do: Diplomacy
10. What States Do: Economic Foreign Policies
11. A Transformation of State Foreign Policy-Making?
About the author
Derek Beach is Professor of Political Science at the Aarhus University, Denmark.Rasmus Brun Pedersen is Associate Professor of Political Science at Aarhus University, Denmark.
Summary
The second edition of this introductory textbook on foreign policy analysis focuses on the key explanatory factors that underlie the foreign policies of states and other actors to show how theory can illuminate practice. Genuinely international in scope and drawing on a wide range of examples, it provides an accessible introduction to the key elements of foreign policy analysis to explain, predict and evaluate what states and other collective actors want, how they make decisions, and key determinants of state security, diplomatic, and economic foreign policies. Providing a broad set of theoretical tools for analysing foreign policy, and including increased coverage of methodology, this new edition provides students with the skills to undertake their own foreign policy analysis.
Foreword
Genuinely international in scope and drawing on a wide range of examples from around the world, this important new textbook provides an accessible introduction to the key elements of foreign policy analysis, helping to explain why states and actors behave in the way that they do.
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An intelligent and insightful survey of the field of Foreign Policy Analysis, offering students and scholars an excellent starting point for their own research. Methodological issues are described with clarity and precision and the text is replete with practical examples from world politics. This is both a first rate teaching tool and an original contribution to the discipline in its own right.
