Foreign Policy Analysis A Comparative Introduction

by Breuning, Marijke

• ISBN13: 9780312296209
• ISBN10: 0312296207
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This book's conceptual introduction to foreign policy analysis focuses on decision makers and decision making. Each chapter is organized around puzzles and questions to which undergraduate students can easily relate. The book emphasizes the importance of individuals in foreign policy decision making, while also placing decision makers within the context that shapes their perceptions and actions.

Author Biography

MARIJKE BREUNING is a professor of political science at the University of North Texas.  She previously taught at Truman State University and the University of Arkansas. Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and other refereed journals as well as edited books. She co-authored (with John T. Ishiyama) Ethnopolitics in the New Europe. She is a member of the editorial teams of Foreign Policy Analysis and the Journal of Political Science Education.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Why Study Foreign Policy Comparatively?	p. 1
Do Leaders Shape Foreign Policy?	p. 27
How Leaders Make Sense of the World	p. 53
Leaders Are Not Alone: The Role of Advisors and Bureaucracies	p. 85
Leaders in Context I: Domestic Constraints on Foreign Policy Making	p. 115
Leaders in Context II: International Constraints on Foreign Policy Making	p. 141
Who or What Determines Foreign Policy?	p. 163
Glossary	p. 177
Bibliography	p. 187
Index	p. 203
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