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This article aims to provide insight about the relationship between climate change policy and foreign policy. With Mexico as case study and through the examination of literature on foreign policy analysis, the author suggests that the search for a better performance in the energy sector could undermine previously made climate change actions and commitments, thus modifying foreign policy. This situation is assessed for two presidential terms. The previous administration was eager to locate and promote Mexico as a front‐runner in climate change actions, developing national policies aimed at reducing emissions from pollution sources and actively participating at the international fora. On the other hand, the current government has followed a different approach. Now that the energy sector has been reformed, a potential increase in oil production can be expected, regardless of the promotion of renewable energy. Such an ambivalent attitude may send confusing signals to the international community about Mexico's role and position with respect to climate change, even though this modification is acknowledged as a result of a change in government.

Since the government published Putting People First, there has been a raft of circulars, pilots, policies, reports and strategies bringing the personalisation agenda ever closer. In this article, Oliver Mills puts a finger on the pulse of local authorities and describes the complex challenges and barriers they face as they piece the jigsaw together that will transform the adult social care system for good.

Populist parties are often seen as a threat to liberal democracy domestically, and in the international arena, they are often accused of unwillingness to support a liberal international order. We study how what we know about foreign policy preferences of populist parties is driven by how we study the phenomenon; and how we can fix the shortcomings which exist in the literature. To sketch a future research agenda, we first conduct a systematic review of the literature on the foreign policy views of populist parties in Europe and investigate how what we know is driven by how we know it. We look at the themes of foreign policy, research methods, as well as the parties and countries in researchers' focus. Our findings indicate that skewed focus on particular countries and parties combined with a uniform use of methods contributes to a lack of detailed understanding of populist views on foreign policies. We propose future avenues of research into the foreign policy views of populist parties, including a diversification of methods and more in-depth empirical and cross-national studies on specific themes.