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This work serves not only to present the history of the field in the form of its most important earlier writings, but also the core theoretical texts of this sub-discipline of international relations, addressing current issues and controversies engaging this vibrant community of scholars around the world

1. Foreign policy analysis : an overview -- 2. Foreign policy decision making -- 3. Bureaucracies and foreign policy -- 4. The domestic sources of foreign policy -- 5. Foreign policy analysis and the state -- 6. Foreign policy analysis and the state -- 6. Foreign policy, globalization and the study of foreign policy analysis -- 7. Foreign policy and change -- 8. Conclusion.

Illustrated throughout with case studies and helpful learning aids, this book introduces students to the range of approaches to the study of foreign policy analysis (FPA) that have developed over the last six decades, exposes them to the critiques of these established outlooks, and familiarises them with new outlooks on FPA.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: What Is Foreign Policy Analysis? -- What Is a Policy? -- When a Policy Becomes Foreign -- An Array of Explanations -- Levels of Analysis and the Evolution in FPA -- A Toolbox for Studying FPA -- References -- Chapter 2: How to Identify and Assess a Foreign Policy? -- The Goals of Foreign Policy -- The Goals Communicated -- Doctrine -- National Interest -- Deducing the Goals Pursued -- Mobilized Resources -- Resources -- The Power Paradox -- Mobilization and Exploitation -- Instruments of Foreign Policy -- Socialization -- Coercion -- Interventions -- Event-Based Databases -- The Process of Foreign Policy -- Segmentation in Six Phases -- A Linear, Cyclical or Chaotic Process -- The Outcome of Foreign Policy -- Measuring Effectiveness -- Feedback Effects -- Historical Institutionalism -- Explaining Effectiveness -- From the Puzzle to the Theoretical Explanations -- Theoretical Models -- References -- Chapter 3: Do Decision-Makers Matter? -- Emotions -- From Psychobiography to Statistics -- Middle Way: Affective Dimensions -- Typologies Combining the Affective Dimensions -- Cognition -- Cognitive Consistency -- Operational Codes -- Heuristic Shortcuts -- Cognitive Mapping -- Cognitive Complexity -- Schema Theory -- Perceptions -- Misperception -- Attribution Bias -- Probabilities -- References -- Chapter 4: What Is the Influence of the Bureaucracy? -- Management Styles -- Defining Management Styles -- The Most Appropriate Management Style -- Group Dynamics -- Groupthink -- Defining the Phenomenon -- Organizational Model -- Organizational Strategies -- Effects of SOPs -- Bureaucratic Model -- One Game, Several Players -- Interactions Between the Players -- Position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs -- Bureaucratic Model and Its Critics -- References

Cet article avance que les analystes de la politique étrangère pourraient et devraient se servir des techniques quantitatives de recherche. L'auteur examine la valeur opérationnelle de quatre d'entre elles pour des études de cette nature : (1) analyses des opinions de I'élite et de la masse, pouvant soustendre des attitudes générates susceptibles d'influencer cette politique; (2) analyses de faits quantifiables tels que les mouvements de commerce, les pertes de guerre et les budgets gouvernementaux; (3) techniques de simulation et de dynamique de groupes, propres à permettre l'élaboration d'une théorie générale de la décision; (4) analyses de contenu des messages des responsables de la politique étrangére.Il semble que, en matière de politique étrangère, l'analyse de contenu soit la plus fructueuse de ces techniques quantitatives de recherche, parce qu'elle centre I'étude sur la conjoncture de la décision, parce qu'elle permet l'examen de décisions spécifiques et parce qu'elle porte sur des documents d'information dont le volume est relativement abondant. On a utilisé cette technique avec profit dans l'étude des crises internationales; on pourrait se servir de méthodes similaires dans nombre de situations diverses impliquant la politique étrangère. A cet effet, l'analyste doit systématiser le choix des porte-paroles dont il scrute les messages et bâtir une grille complexe d'analyse, lui permettant de coder les thèmes de leur politique.L'article signale trois difficultés inhérentes à la méthode et dont l'importance varie d'après les buts de chaque étude : une information incomplète, l'authenticité de l'information et la signification qu'il faut attribuer à un thème d'après la fréquence d'utilisation par son auteur.

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.

The past decade has witnessed the investment of considerable energy and ingenuity in the refinement of the categories of foreign policy determinants proposed in James Rosenau's famous essay, "Pre-theories and Theories of Foreign Policy." A sizable literature on foreign policy behavior is now developing, based upon empirical tests of the explanatory power of such variables as size, wealth, degree of political accountability, decision-maker attributes, environmental stimuli, etc. Surprisingly little attention in the field of comparative foreignpolicy, however, has been directed at specifying more precisely and in operational form the concept ofissue area—an important component of Rosenau's "pre-theory" and an analytic concept that has received much attention in the public policy field. Moreover, among those scholars who do employ the concept there is little consensus as to the merits of a content based as opposed to a process oriented treatment of issue area or to the implications for empirical research of selecting one approach over the other. This essay seeks: 1) to review the foreign policy literature that attaches major importance to issue area; 2) to assess the merits of alternative treatments of the concept in terms of their contribution to the development of a theory of comparative foreign policy; and 3) to specify the conditions under which different issue area approaches can be used most profitably in comparative foreign policy research.

North American scholars typically do not hesitate to make pronouncements about foreign policy processes and outcomes in other countries. And despite ample evidence to the contrary, the perception that foreign policy analysis is still largely a North American scholarly enterprise persists. Foreign Policy Analysis Beyond North America challenges this perception, providing a rich overview of work by scholars in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East and also highlighting theoretical and empirical insights that may catalyze new waves of progress in the field