This five-volume set is the first major collection on this core substantive policy field in international political inquiry. It serves not only to present the history of the field in the form of its most important earlier writings, but also to present the core theoretical texts of this sub-discipline of international relations as it stands today, addressing the current issues and controversies engaging this internationally vibrant community of scholars around the world.
Part One: Historical Development of Foreign Policy Analysis assembles scholarly contributions which have been seminal in the development of foreign policy analysis as an academic field by tracing the important historical pathways, junctures and formative moments in this policy domain.
Parts Two and Three: Current Theoretical Approaches to Foreign Policy Analysis shift the focus to contemporary theoretical approaches to foreign policy analysis over the last decade and a half including modern realism, liberal intergovernmentalism and institutionalism, cognitive and psychological approaches, and more recent social constructivist and poststructuralist thinking.
Part Four: Problems and Debates in Contemporary Foreign Policy Analysis turns the attention away from substance of foreign policy to the question of how such analysis should proceed in the first place. Issues covered include the agency-structure debate, the role of ideas and discourses in FPA, critiques of neorealism and other mainstream approaches, in addition to other controversies and debates of an overarching nature.
Together the four parts provide an unparalleled resource for all international relations, political science and public policy libraries.
Walter Carlsnaes is Professor of Political Science in the Department of Government, Uppsala University, and Adjunct Professor at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He has published eight books, including five co-edited volumes, was founding editor of the European Journal of International Relations and co-edited the SAGE Handbook of International Relations. His main research interests are in foreign policy analysis, IR theory and the philosophy of social science, EU external relations, as well as Swedish and South African foreign and security policy.
Stefano Guzzini is Senior Researcher at the Danish Institute for International Studies, Copenhagen and Professor of Government, Uppsala University, Sweden. He has published in, among others, European Journal of International Relations, International Organization, Rassegna Italiana di Sociologia, Review of International Political Economy, Review of International Studies, Revue Française de Science Politique, Zeitschrift f r Internationale Beziehungen. He is the author of Realism in International Relations and International Political Economy: The Continuing Story of a Death Foretold and served as the editor of the Journal of International Relations and Development from 2004 to 2008. He is a member of both the Governing Council of the International Studies Association (ISA) and the Steering Committee of the Standing Group of International Relations (SGIR) of the ECPR, and of the Executive Committee of the Central and Eastern International Studies Association (CEEISA).
