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Introduction Introduction
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Top-Down Perspectives on Emerging Powers—and their Limitations Top-Down Perspectives on Emerging Powers—and their Limitations
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A Foreign Policy Approach to Emerging Powers: New Actors A Foreign Policy Approach to Emerging Powers: New Actors
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A Future Foreign Policy Research Agenda on Rising Powers A Future Foreign Policy Research Agenda on Rising Powers
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Conclusion Conclusion
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Notes Notes
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References References
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27 Foreign Policy of Emerging Powers
Get accessSandra Destradi holds the Chair of International Relations at the University of Freiburg, Germany. Her research interests include emerging powers and global governance, regional security issues, and the impact of populism on foreign policy. She has published the monograph Reluctance in World Politics: Why States Fail to Act Decisively (Bristol University Press, 2023) and articles in journals such as the European Journal of International Relations, Review of International Studies, Foreign Policy Analysis, Democratization, Third World Quarterly, and Asian Survey.
Leslie E. Wehner is Professor of International Relations at the University of Bath, UK. His research interests include social constructivism and role theory within international relations, international political economy, and foreign policy analysis. He also conducts research on emerging powers (BRICS; Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa), leaders and leadership in foreign policy, populism in IR, and the foreign policy of Latin American states. His most recent articles have been published in Cambridge Review of International Affairs, Foreign Policy Analysis, International Studies Review, International Politics, International Relations, and Journal of International Relations and Development.
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Published:22 February 2024
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Abstract
This chapter aims at delineating a new research agenda on rising powers rooted in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) that can create a solid nexus between International Relations (IR) and FPA scholarship. We argue that focusing on individual leaders, on the specificities of political parties and their ideologies, on subnational units (paradiplomacy), and on domestic interest groups has the potential to generate new insights into the drivers of emerging powers’ foreign policy decisions and preferences. We also introduce four suggestive themes for a future research agenda on BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa). They are status seeking, autonomy, domestic contestation, and international attributions of responsibility. An FPA approach can provide possible explanations for phenomena like the gap between economic growth and foreign policy activism, the lack of open confrontation between states, the multifaceted strategies advanced by emerging powers, and the inconsistencies and ambiguities that BRICS show as international actors.
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