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Six articles addressing the multiplicity of methodological perspectives currently used & available to foreign policy analysis are presented. In the Introduction, symposium editor Jean A. Garrison articulates the need for contemporary studies to establish novel concepts that will overcome current obstacles in foreign policy analysis. In Foreign Policy Analysis in the Twenty-First Century: Back to Comparison, Forward to Identity and Ideas, Juliet Kaarbo recommends that foreign policy analysis adopt methodological frameworks that are either comparative in nature or address the relationship between identity & ideas. In Foreign Policy Analysis and Globalization: Public Opinion, World Opinion, and the Individual, Douglas Foyle contends that foreign policy analysis must consider the influence that public & world opinion & the global community possess over states' foreign policies in order to better account for the movement of people, capital, & ideas across international boundaries. In Science, Empiricism, and Tolerance in the Study of Foreign Policymaking, Mark Schafer suggests that foreign policy analysts demonstrate greater tolerance for certain subfields & methodological perspectives & that scholarship utilize three empirical techniques -- computer-oriented textual evaluation, state-level psychology, & experimental perspectives. In Foreign Policymaking and Group Dynamics: Where We've Been and Where We're Going, Garrison reviews existing research on group decision making to determine future applications of foreign policy analysis & investigate how individual cognition becomes assimilated into the decision-making processes of groups. In Crisis Studies and Foreign Policy Analysis: Insights, Synergies, and Challenges, Eric K. Stern notes the contributions that international crisis theory approaches have made to foreign policy analysis & identifies future research topics, eg, determining the limitations of existing deterrence policies. 315 References. J. W. Parker

En 1962 durante la Guerra Fría, la Unión Soviética instaló misiles nucleares en Cuba. Los Estados Unidos dirigido, por John Kennedy, respondió con un bloqueo a la isla cubana. Unos dirán que el bloqueo dependió del carácter de Kennedy. Otros afirmarán que la reacción dependió de la interpretación del presidente de los Estados Unidos ante la instalación de los misiles en Cuba. Posiblemente, otras explicaciones mostrarán que la Unión Soviética intentaba defenderse en un sistema anárquico. Como Jean-Frédéric Morin y Jonathan Paquin lo señalan en su libro, este acontecimiento puede desenterrar múltiples formas de interpretar o explicar este hecho histórico desde el Análisis de Política Exterior.

This paper generates a framework to understand Latin American foreign relations through the use of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) role theory. The use of roles to describe and analyze regional interstate relations has previously been found in the literature on Latin America, but these studies have not taken advantage of the full range of concepts and theoretical implications associated with role theory to analyze the region. The paper develops a typology of states with associated national role conceptions (NRCs) and generates expectations for the sources of those NRCs, as well as elements of the role enactment and role location processes for Latin American states. The paper then illustrates the framework's applicability through a brief analysis of the role location process for Venezuela during the Presidency of Hugo Chávez. The analysis of NRCs selected by the leader of Venezuela, and their reception by role partners and the audience of interested states during the role location process demonstrates the fruitfulness of role theory for understanding Latin American regional relations. The analysis also suggests some modifications for FPA role theory itself as a result of the Venezuelan case.

THE SHOCK OF THE END OF THE COLD WAR AND THE APPARENT INABILITY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS (IR) THEORY TO PREDICT THIS PROFOUND CHANGE HAVE RAISED QUESTIONS ABOUT HOW SCHOLARS SHOULD GO ABOUT UNDERSTANDING THE WORLD OF TODAY. THE INHERITED TOOLS AND WAYS OF DESCRIBING THE INTERNATIONAL ARENA DO NOT SEEM TO WORK AS WELL AS THEY ONCE DID. TO EXPLAIN AND PREDICT THE BEHAVIOR OF NATION-STATES, IR THEORY REQUIRES A THEORY OF HUMAN POLITICAL CHOICE. WITHIN THE STUDY OF IR, FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS (FPA) HAS BEGUN TO DEVELOP SUCH A THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVE. FROM ITS INCEPTION, FPA HAS INVOLVED THE EXAMINATION OF HOW FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONS ARE MADE AND HAS ASSUMED THAT HUMAN BEINGS, ACTING INDIVIDUALLY OR IN COLLECTIVITIES, ARE THE SOURCE OF MUCH BEHAVIOR AND MOST CHANGE IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICS. THIS ESSAY REVIEWS THE FIELD OF FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS, EXAMINING ITS RESEARCH CORE AND ITS EVOLUTION TO DATE. THE OVERVIEW ALSO LOOKS FORWARD, POINTING TO THE FUTURE, NOT ONLY OF FPA ITSELF, BUT TO THE IMPLICATIONS THAT FUTURE DEVELOPMENTS IN FPA MAY HAVE FOR THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS.