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Introduction Introduction
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Liberal Statehood and Foreign Policy Opportunities Liberal Statehood and Foreign Policy Opportunities
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Liberal Principles and Liberal Statehood Liberal Principles and Liberal Statehood
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Liberalism and FPA Liberalism and FPA
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Liberal Statecraft Liberal Statecraft
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Liberal Dominance and Sustainability Liberal Dominance and Sustainability
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DPT and NCR DPT and NCR
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The Conflicting Values of Liberal Statecraft The Conflicting Values of Liberal Statecraft
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Shapeshifting: The Dangers of Morphing Liberalism to Liberal Internationalism Shapeshifting: The Dangers of Morphing Liberalism to Liberal Internationalism
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America the Leader vs. America First America the Leader vs. America First
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Illiberalism and Multi-Polarity Illiberalism and Multi-Polarity
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Liberal Challenges and Consequences for FPA Liberal Challenges and Consequences for FPA
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References References
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2 Foreign Policy Analysis and Liberalism
Get accessAmelia Hadfield joined the University of Surrey in January 2019 as Head of the Department of Politics, and Chair in European and International Affairs after positions in the UK (Canterbury Christ Church University and the University of Kent) and Brussels (Vrije Universiteit Brussels and the Institute for European Studies). Amelia is a long-standing Jean Monnet Chair in European Foreign Affairs, whose research covers a wide range of areas on EU foreign and security policy, and EU-UK relations. Additional areas of interest include foreign policy analysis, international relations theory, international and diplomatic history, international political economy, and public policy analysis.
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Published:22 February 2024
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Abstract
Within the area of foreign policy analysis (FPA), liberalism plays a vital role, with its emphasis on domestic politics, decision-making processes, and the interdependence of structures and agents. Representing a rich and varied a group of perspectives, both classical and contemporary, liberalism’s starting point is both the individual, and the interplay between individuals, markets, and states, and the series of rights and obligations driving political actors at both domestic and international levels. Liberalism’s approach helpfully individualizes, even humanizes the international state system by cracking open the ‘black box’ of a generic state unit, allowing a whole range of identities, ideas, interests, and institutions to flow forth. This provides both FPA and foreign policy decision-makers alike with a far more accurate—but complex—appreciation of what defines states (i.e., their essential statehood), as well as what drives and motives states (i.e., their preferred form of statecraft). However, as this chapter explores, there is no single, linear liberal philosophy, but rather ever-contested options about the self, rights, and representation, and interdependence between national and international realms, many of which have been repeatedly challenged at both domestic and international levels.
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