Foreign Policy Analysis (0312296207) BREUNING

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.

"Well-known scholar and journal editor Marijke Breuning provides a welcome new text to the field of foreign policy analysis. Aiming the book at those with no prior study of international relations, she uses both U.S. and other country examples to introduce students to the comparative study of foreign policy decision making. By posing interesting questions and puzzles, she conveys both concepts and theories in an accessible way. Our field’s curricular literature has just been enriched, and those wanting to teach an undergraduate foreign policy analysis course owe it to themselves and their students to check out this volume."--Ralph G. Carter, Professor and Chair, Department of Political Science, Texas Christian University

"Foreign Policy Analysis: A Comparative Introduction is one of the best books published on this subject in many years. The book is a tour de force on this field. Breuning's work is distinguished by its thorough coverage of the factors that impact upon decision-making, which include leadership and operational code analysis, perceptions, advisors and bureaucracies, media, history, and culture. This study sets the agenda for work in the field. I recommend it without reservation to both specialists in foreign policy analysis and generalists."--Patrick James, Director, Center for International Studies, USC, and Distinguished Professor in Foreign Policy Analysis, International Studies Association, 2007

"A marvelous new introductory text which uses a range of well-chosen examples to explain the theory and practice of foreign policy analysis. In placing individuals at the very center of decision-making, it fills a substantial gap in the introductory literature. This book provides the kind of keen, incisive analysis of the subject which many of us who follow that approach to foreign policy and international relations for decades to come."--Dr. David Patrick Houghton, Department of Political Science, University of Central Florida