Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox (Paperback, 2018)

1.What is Foreign Policy Analysis? What is a Policy? When a Policy Becomes Foreign An Array of Explanations The Levels of Analysis and the Evolution in FPA A Toolbox for Studying FPA 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 3. Do Decision-Makers Matter? Emotions --From Psychobiography to Statistics --The 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 4. What is the Influence of the Bureaucracy? Management Styles --Defining Management Styles --The Most Appropriate Management Style Group Dynamics --Groupthink --Defining the Phenomenon The Organizational Model --Organizational Strategies --The Effects of Standard Operating Procedures The Bureaucratic Model --One Game, Several Players --The Interactions between the Players --The Position of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs --The Bureaucratic Model and Its Critics 5. To What Extent is Foreign Policy Shaped by Institutions? Parliamentary and Electoral System --Presidential and Parliamentary Regimes --Parliamentarians and their Preferences --Political Cohabitation and Coalitions The Strong State and the Weak State --Determining the Relative Power of the State --The Power of the State and Its Foreign Policy The Democratic Peace Proposition --Observing the Democratic Peace --Defining the Variables of the Democratic Peace --The Peaceful Nature of Democracies --Explaining the Democratic Peace Through Norms --The Exchange of Information and Credibility Economic Liberalism --From Democracy to Free Trade --From Free Trade to Peace and Vice Versa --Critics of the Liberal Peace 6. How Influential Are the Social Actors? Public Opinion --The Almond-Lippmann Consensus and Its Critics --The Structure of Public Opinion --The Influence of Public Opinion --Audience Costs The Influence of Leaders on Public Opinion --The Rally Around the Flag --The Temptation of War as a Rallying Lever The Media --The Media's Influence --How Leaders Influence the Media? --The CNN Effect The Interest Groups --How Interest Groups Influence Foreign Policy? --Methodological Pitfalls --Case Studies and Generalizations The Experts --Think Tanks --Epistemic Communities --The Experts' Predictions 7. How Does Rationality Apply to FPA and What Are Its Limitations? Rational Choice --From Micro-Economics to Foreign Policy --The Substitutability of Foreign Policies --Rational Deterrence Modelling Rationality --Game Theory --Cybernetic Theory --The Two-Level Game Rationality and Cognition --Prospect Theories --Poliheuristic Theory 8. What Part Does Culture Play in FPA? Norms --Norm Compliance --Norm Diffusion National Identities --The Self and the Other --Evolving Identities --Foreign Policy as Identity Affiliation --Social Identity Theory National Roles --Role Conception --Roles as Foreign Policy Guides Gender --Women, Femininity and Feminism --The Nation and the State in the Feminist Grammar --Foreign States and Nations Organizational and Strategic Cultures --The Stability of Organizational Cultures --Interactions between Organizational Cultures --Strategic Culture --Strategic Cultures and Practices Discourse --Discourse as a Field of Interaction --The Methods of Disco