Foreign Policy Analysis

This book's introduction to foreign policy analysis focuses on decision makers and decision making. Each chapter is organised around puzzles and questions to which undergraduates can relate. The book emphasizes the importance of individuals in foreign policy decision making, while also placing decision makers within their context.

"Well-known scholar and journal editor Marijke Breuning provides a welcome new text to the field of foreign policy analysis. Aiming the book at those with no prior study of international relations, she uses both U.S. and other country examples to introduce students to the comparative study of foreign policy decision making.By posing interesting questions and puzzles, she conveys both concepts and theories in an accessible way.Our field s curricular literature has just been enriched, and those wanting to teach an undergraduate foreign policy analysis course owe it to themselves and their students to check out this volume."

• Ralph G. Carter, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Texas Christian University

  Autorentext
  MARIJKE BREUNING is Associate Professor of Political Science, Truman State University, USA.

  Inhalt
  Why Study Foreign Policy Comparatively? Do Leaders Shape Foreign Policy? How Leaders Make Sense of the World Leaders Are Not Alone: The Role of Advisors and Bureaucracies Leaders in Context: Constraints on Foreign Policy Making Who or What Determines Foreign Policy?