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The Disconnect between FPA and IR The Disconnect between FPA and IR
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Advantages of Reconnecting IR and FPA Advantages of Reconnecting IR and FPA
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FPA Today FPA Today
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New(er) Directions New(er) Directions
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Wider Variety of Actors Wider Variety of Actors
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More Policy Domains More Policy Domains
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Speaking to Policy-Makers and Policy Challenges Speaking to Policy-Makers and Policy Challenges
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Linking FPA to IR Theory and Interdisciplinary Approaches Linking FPA to IR Theory and Interdisciplinary Approaches
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Structure and Strategy of This Handbook Structure and Strategy of This Handbook
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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References References
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1 Repositioning Foreign Policy Analysis in International Relations
Get accessJuliet Kaarbo is a Professor of International Relations with a Chair in Foreign Policy at the University of Edinburgh. She is founding co-director of the Scottish Council on Global Affairs. Her research focuses on leader personality and decision-making, group dynamics, foreign policy analysis and theory, parliaments and parties, and national roles, and has recently appeared in journals such as International Affairs, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, International Studies Review, Global Studies Quarterly, Political Psychology, and Foreign Policy Analysis. Her books and co-edited volumes include Coalition Politics and Cabinet Decision Making (2012), Domestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International Relations (2016), and The Oxford Handbook of Political Executives (2020). She has served as an Associate Editor for Foreign Policy Analysis and British Journal of Politics and International Relations. She was the 2018 Distinguished Scholar of Foreign Policy Analysis in the International Studies Association (ISA) and served as ISA Vice President in 2022‒2023.
Cameron G. Thies is MSU Foundation Professor and Dean of James Madison College at Michigan State University. He has published broadly in foreign policy analysis, conflict processes, international political economy, and international relations theory. His work has appeared in the American Journal of Political Science, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, World Politics, International Studies Quarterly, European Journal of International Relations, Comparative Political Studies, and Foreign Policy Analysis, among others. His books include The United States, Israel, and The Search for International Order: Socializing States (2013), Intra-Industry Trade: Cooperation and Conflict in the Global Political Economy (2015), and Rising Powers and Foreign Policy Revisionism: Understanding BRICS Identity and Behavior through Time (2017). Thies also served as editor-in-chief of The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Foreign Policy Analysis (2018), editor of Political Science Research & Methods and Foreign Policy Analysis, and deputy lead editor of Journal of Politics. He was named the Distinguished Scholar of Foreign Policy Analysis (2016), the Quincy Wright Distinguished Scholar (2017), and the Ole R. Holsti Distinguished Scholar (2020) of the International Studies Association. Thies was also President of the International Studies Association (2019‒2020).
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Published:22 February 2024
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Abstract
This introductory chapter for the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis argues for a repositioning of the subfield of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) to a central analytic location within the study of International Relations (IR). We take a critical perspective on the history of FPA’s relationship with the rest of the discipline and trace the origins and causes of the disconnect that has sometime existed between FPA scholars and the wider IR community. We argue that this disconnect is in need of repair, particularly given developments within IR, such as the ‘end of theories’ debate, problem-driven research, the domestic, ideational, and agency turns in IR, and methodological pluralism. We also argue that in order to play leader, bridge builder, and innovator roles, FPA research must also develop in new directions. We identify the broad trends in FPA research since the end of the Cold War. With this overview of the state of the art of FPA research, the chapter outlines how FPA can challenge some of its own weaknesses and gaps, and contribute to broad disciplinary questions. FPA research in new policy domains, on a wider variety of types of actors, and oriented to significant policy problems can, we argue, redefine FPA, and shape the study and understanding of international politics more broadly.
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