Foreign Policy Analysis: A Comparative Introduction

This book's conceptual introduction to foreign policy analysis focuses on decision makers and decision making. Each chapter is organized around puzzles and questions to which undergraduate students can easily relate. The book emphasizes the importance of individuals in foreign policy decision making, while also placing decision makers within the context that shapes their perceptions and actions.

MARIJKE BREUNING is a professor of political science at the University of North Texas.  She previously taught at Truman State University and the University of Arkansas. Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review, International Studies Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, and other refereed journals as well as edited books. She co-authored (with John T. Ishiyama) Ethnopolitics in the New Europe. She is a member of the editorial teams of Foreign Policy Analysis and the Journal of Political Science Education.