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This article explores `European foreign policy' as an important new empirical domain of foreign policy and also as a challenging vehicle for evaluating the current status of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). It begins by identifying the weaknesses of the dominant institutionalist mode of analysis of foreign policy activity in Europe which include a restrictive definition of `foreign policy' in this context. A case is then made for arguing that critics of FPA have underestimated the significance of developments in this sub-field of International Relations over the last 30 years and that `traditional' FPA can be adapted to aid the task of understanding the complex arena of European foreign policy defined here as constituted by three interrelated types of activity; Community, Union and National (member states') foreign policy. Having sketched out an analytical framework which demonstrates the continuing strengths of FPA, the article reflects upon what we might learn from this application about the weaknesses of this mode of analysis. Continuing problems notwithstanding, a revitalized FPA is revealed here which has the potential to incorporate both positivist and `post-positivist' approaches.

The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis repositions the subfield of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) to a central analytic location within the study of International Relations (IR). Over the last twenty years, IR has seen a cross-theoretical turn towards incorporating domestic politics, decision-making, agency, practices, and subjectivity—the staples of the FPA subfield. This turn, however, is underdeveloped theoretically, empirically, and methodologically. To reconnect FPA and IR research, this Handbook links FPA to other theoretical traditions in IR, takes FPA to a wider range of state and non-state actors and connects FPA to significant policy challenges and debates. By advancing FPA along these trajectories, the Handbook directly addresses enduring criticisms of FPA, including that it is isolated within IR, it is state-centric, its policy relevance is not always clear, and its theoretical foundations and methodological techniques are stale. The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis provides an inclusive and forward-looking assessment of this subfield. Edited and written by a team of world-class scholars, it sets the agenda for future research in FPA and in IR.

Rising Regional Powers and International Relations Theories: Comparing Brazil and India's Foreign Security Policies and Their Search for Great-Power Status / Mario E. Carranza 255-277. - The Politics of Brazilian Foreign Policy and Its Analytical Challenges / Carlos R. S. Milani; Leticia Pinheiro 278-296. - Brazil's Soft-Power Strategy: The Political Aspirations of South-South Development Cooperation / Sandra H. Bry 297-316. - The Energy Statecraft of Brazil: Promoting Biofuels to African Countries / Klaus Guimarães Dalgaard 317-337. - A Bigger Bang for a Bigger Buck: What China's Changing Attitude Toward UN Peacekeeping Says About Its Evolving Approach to International Institutions / Meicen Sun 338-360. - "Sellout" Ministries and Jingoes: China's Bureaucratic Institutions and the Evolution of Contested National Role Conceptions in the South China Sea / Evan Jones 361-379. - Why So Many Layers? China's "State-Speak" and Its Classification of Partnerships / Jiun Bang 380-397. - Were Those Decisions Righteously Made? The Chinese Tradition of Righteous War and China's Decisions for War, 1950-1979 / Cheng-Yun Chang 398-415. - The Foreign Policy Attitudes of Indian Elites: Variance, Structure, and Common Denominators / Sumit Ganguly; Timothy Hellwig; William R. Thompson 416-438. - Competing Identities and Security Interests in the Indo-US Relationship / Zachary Selden; Stuart Strome 439-459. - Policy Discourses and Security Issues: US Foreign Policy Toward India During the Clinton Administration / Carina van de Wetering 460-479. - Russian Images of the European Union: Before and after Maidan / Natalia Chaban; Ole Elgström; Olga Gulyaeva 480-499. - Vodka or Bourbon? Foreign Policy Preferences Toward Russia and the United States in Georgia / David S. Siroky; Alan James Simmons; Giorgi Gvalia 500-518. - Abstract View article. - Corrigendum

Kaarbo, J.: Foreign policy analysis in the twenty-first century: back to comparison, forward to identity and ideas. - S. 156-163. Foyle, D.: Foreign policy analysis and globalization: public opinion, world opinion, and the individual. - S. 163-170. Schafer, M.: Science, empiricism, and tolerance in the study of foreign policymaking. - S. 171-177. Garrison, J. A.: Foreign policymaking and group dynamics: where we've been and where we're going. - S. 177-183. Stern, E. K.: Crisis studies and foreign policy analysis: insights, synergies, and challenges. - S. 183-191

"The disintegration and questioning of global governance structures and a re-orientation towards national politics combined with the spread of technological innovations such as big data, social media, and phenomena like fake news, populism, or questions of global health policies make it necessary for the introduction of new methods of inquiry and the adaptation of established methods in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). This accessible handbook offers concise chapters from expert international contributors covering a diverse range of new and established Foreign Policy Analysis methods. Embracing methodological pluralism and a belief in the value of an open discussion about methods' assumptions and diverging positions it provides new, state-of-the-art research approaches, as well as introductions to a range of established methods. Each chapter follows the same approach, introducing the method and its development, discussing strengths, requirements, limitations, and potential pitfalls while illustrating the method's application using examples from empirical research. Embracing methodological pluralism and diversity and problem--oriented research that engages with real--world questions the authors examine quantitative and qualitative traditions, rationalist and interpretivist perspectives, as well as different substantive backgrounds. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students in global politics, foreign policy and methods--related classes across the social sciences"--

"The disintegration and questioning of global governance structures and a re-orientation towards national politics combined with the spread of technological innovations such as big data, social media, and phenomena like fake news, populism, or questions of global health policies make it necessary for the introduction of new methods of inquiry and the adaptation of established methods in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). This accessible handbook offers concise chapters from expert international contributors covering a diverse range of new and established Foreign Policy Analysis methods. Embracing methodological pluralism and a belief in the value of an open discussion about methods' assumptions and diverging positions it provides new, state-of-the-art research approaches, as well as introductions to a range of established methods. Each chapter follows the same approach, introducing the method and its development, discussing strengths, requirements, limitations, and potential pitfalls while illustrating the method's application using examples from empirical research. Embracing methodological pluralism and diversity and problem--oriented research that engages with real--world questions the authors examine quantitative and qualitative traditions, rationalist and interpretivist perspectives, as well as different substantive backgrounds. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students in global politics, foreign policy and methods--related classes across the social sciences"--

"The disintegration and questioning of global governance structures and a re-orientation towards national politics combined with the spread of technological innovations such as big data, social media, and phenomena like fake news, populism, or questions of global health policies make it necessary for the introduction of new methods of inquiry and the adaptation of established methods in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). This accessible handbook offers concise chapters from expert international contributors covering a diverse range of new and established Foreign Policy Analysis methods. Embracing methodological pluralism and a belief in the value of an open discussion about methods' assumptions and diverging positions it provides new, state-of-the-art research approaches, as well as introductions to a range of established methods. Each chapter follows the same approach, introducing the method and its development, discussing strengths, requirements, limitations, and potential pitfalls while illustrating the method's application using examples from empirical research. Embracing methodological pluralism and diversity and problem--oriented research that engages with real--world questions the authors examine quantitative and qualitative traditions, rationalist and interpretivist perspectives, as well as different substantive backgrounds. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students in global politics, foreign policy and methods--related classes across the social sciences"--

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