Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox
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