Foreign Policy Analysis : A Toolbox / by Jean-Frederic Morin, Jonathan Paquin.

By: Morin, Jean-Frederic [author.].

Contributor(s): Paquin, Jonathan [author.].

Material type: Text

Text Language of document:EnglishPublisher: 2018Edition: 1st ed. 2018.Description: XIII, 359 p. : 12 ill. ; 24 cm.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9783319610030; 9783319610023.Subject(s): Diplomacy | International relations | Security, InternationalDDC classification: 327.101

Contents:

1.What is Foreign Policy Analysis? -- 2. How to Identify and Assess a Foreign Policy? -- 3. Do Decision-Makers Matter? -- 4. What is the Influence of the Bureaucracy? -- 5. To What Extent is Foreign Policy Shaped by Institutions? -- 6. How Influential Are the Social Actors? -- 7. How Does Rationality Apply to FPA and What Are Its Limitations? -- 8.What Part Does Culture Play in FPA? -- 9. Does the International Structure Explain Foreign Policy? -- 10. What are the Current Challenges to FPA?.

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Dr. B. R. Ambedkar Central Library Social Science	Social Science Collections	327.101 M8256 Fo (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		271788

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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