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"This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Lithuanian foreign policy by employing the theory of small states and the agent-perspective to assess how President Dalia Grybauskaitė impacted Lithuanian foreign policy in 2009-2019 and could affect changes in international structures. Based on original interviews with Grybauskaitė and all her foreign policy advisors, as well as other Lithuanian diplomats and Ministers of Foreign Affairs. In addition to providing an important case study of Lithuanian foreign policy, this monograph also discusses the impact an agent formulating and executing small state foreign policy may have on the "grand structures" of international relations, such as the EU, NATO. For its investigation of the mutual relationship between agent and structure, this monograph draws on the literature on Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and asks questions about the extent to which a particular leader of foreign policy may determine the specific policy decision or outcome"--

Abstract
The European Union (EU) has increasingly become a foreign policy actor in its own right, sparking the emergence of EU External Action Studies (EU EAS). Although this thriving field at the intersection of EU Studies and International Relations has gradually matured, the interaction of EU EAS with Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) has so far remained limited. This contribution discusses whether concepts and approaches from EU EAS hold valuable theoretical insights for FPA, and how these could be exploited. It argues that there is a largely untapped potential for cross-fertilization between the two fields. This claim is illustrated with several examples as well as two short instructive cases that show how the approach to studying the EU's "external effectiveness" helps addressing FPA's blind spot regarding foreign policy impacts, and how the critical agenda on "decentering" EU external action directs much-needed attention to the "foreign" in FPA.

Introduction -- Theoretical background : structures, agents and small state strategies in foreign policy -- Lithuanian foreign policy process and the role of the president -- The Baltic states : between cooperation and competition -- Russia : the reset that never was -- Relations with the USA : CIA prison, defensive plans, Obama, and Trump -- Relationship status with Poland : 'It's complicated' -- Ukraine : the revolution that started in Vilnius -- The European Union and the search for leadership : from the Nordic countries to Germany -- Relationship with Israel -- Conclusions : Lithuanian foreign policy changes and Grybauskaitė's legacy.

The article brings together two cognitive approaches to the analysis of foreign policy: salience and metaphor analysis. Issue salience and metaphors relate to cognitive heuristics that speak to different aspects of the cognitive representation of foreign policy problems which complement each other: the concept of salience looks at the priming of issues in the foreign policymaking environment; metaphors relate to the framing of these issues. The article shows how both cognitive concepts can help the other address individual blind spots. While analyzing the salience of foreign policy issues tells us what issues actors attend to, metaphor analysis can shed light on how they frame these issues and indicate what policy options are made possible. At the same time, salience can help metaphor analysis identify why certain metaphors resonate better in public discourse than others. To briefly illustrate the potential of thinking salience and metaphor analysis together, the article looks into the British public debate about international terrorism and the "war on terror". Adapted from the source document.