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Foreign Policy Analysis

Code: 101097
Credits: 6
2026/2027
Degree programme Type Course
Political Science and Public Management OP 3
Political Science and Public Management OP 4
International Relations OB 3

Contact lecturer

Name :
Juan Pablo Soriano Gatica
Email :
juanpablo.soriano@uab.cat

Teaching staff

Daniel Morente González

Group languages

You can consult this information at the end of the document.

Prerequisites

Prerequisites

  • This course does not have formal academic prerequisites. However, it is highly recommended that students possess a solid understanding of International Relations and Political Science.
  • Students are expected to follow international current affairs through a variety of reliable media sources and to critically evaluate the information they encounter. The ability to critically analyze diverse types of information and sources is essential.
  • As most of the academic texts on foreign policy analysis that will be used in the course are in English or Spanish, a high level of reading comprehension in both languages is required.
  • Reading of academic texts is a central component of this course. Students are expected to complete between one and two mandatory readings for each topic in advance of the corresponding class. These readings are essential for understanding the concepts, theories, and analytical tools introduced during the lectures. Several class sessions will involve in-depth discussions of the assigned texts, and students will be expected to answer questions, identify the main arguments, compare different perspectives, and participate actively in class debates. Keeping up with the assigned readings on a weekly basis is therefore essential to successfully follow the course and achieve the intended learning outcomes.

Objectives

Objectives and contextualization

Foreign policy can be defined as the set of official external actions undertaken by state representatives and other high-level diplomatic actors. Foreign policy decision-making is shaped by internal structures (such as citizens, political opposition, bureaucracies, and constitutional frameworks) as well as external dynamics (including the international system, global norms, treaties, international organizations, economic interdependence, and relations with other states).

Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) seeks to identify the material and ideational factors, both domestic and international, that influence the formulation and implementation of foreign policy decisions. It also aims to develop theoretical frameworks to explain these relationships.

This course introduces students to the principal analytical frameworks and tools of FPA and offers insights into their application, with a primary focus on state actors within the contemporary international system.

The course has two main objectives:

  • To provide a conceptual and theoretical framework, along with practical tools, for analyzing the various actors, factors, and contexts that shape foreign policies.
  • To apply these analytical tools to a range of empirical case studies.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of the course, students should be able to:

  • Understand the origins and development of major theoretical approaches and conceptual tools in FPA.
  • Analyze foreign policy and other internationally relevant public policies, focusing on both formulation and implementation.
  • Identify and analyze key actors, as well as the political, institutional, economic, and social processes—at both domestic and international levels—that influence foreign policy.
  • Comprehend the complexity of the international system in which foreign policy decisions are made.
  • Evaluate foreign policy decision-making using a variety of analytical tools and apply these tools to case studies from different historical periods and world regions.
  • Understand the key transformations affecting foreign policy today, with particular attention to developments in contemporary diplomacy.
  • Reflect critically on the ethical and normative dimensions of foreign policy decisions.
  • Identify and use relevant information sources for the study and analysis of foreign policies.

Learning outcomes

  1. Working in teams and networking, particularly in interdisciplinary conditions.
  2. Identifying sources of data and conducting bibliographic and documentary searches.
  3. Synthesizing and critically analysing information.
  4. Interpreting and applying English texts in an academic way.
  5. Arguing from different theoretical perspectives.
  6. Working by using quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques in order to apply them to research processes.
  7. Using the main information and documentation techniques (ICT) as an essential tool for the analysis.
  8. Demonstrating good writing skills in different contexts.
  9. Realising effective oral presentations that are suited to the audience.
  10. Managing the available time in order to accomplish the established objectives and fulfil the intended task.
  11. Working autonomously.
  12. Producing and planning researches or analytical reports.
  13. Designing data collection techniques, coordinating the information processing and meticulously applying hypothesis verification methods.
  14. Properly using the theory and concepts of international relations (traditions of Hobbesian, Grotian or Kantian thought).
  15. Explaining the major approximations to the international relations (realism, transnationalism and structuralism).
  16. Describing the international order: anarchy versus order, society of states and transnational society.
  17. Describing the main characteristic elements of the international society as a whole (1945-2000).
  18. Critically assessing the impacts of globalization in several areas: safety, environment, human rights, migrations and peace.
  19. Demonstrating they know theoretical tendencies and classical and recent analytical approximations of International Relations.
  20. Assessing specific distinctive aspects and conceptual and methodological instruments of the different tendencies and analytical approximations of International Relations.
  21. Applying theoretical and analytical knowledge of International Relations to practical and professional cases, in particular to the areas of conflict and cooperation between actors.
  22. Students must have and understand knowledge of an area of study built on the basis of general secondary education, and while it relies on some advanced textbooks it also includes some aspects coming from the forefront of its field of study.
  23. Students must be capable of applying their knowledge to their work or vocation in a professional way and they should have building arguments and problem resolution skills within their area of study.
  24. Students must be capable of collecting and interpreting relevant data (usually within their area of study) in order to make statements that reflect social, scientific or ethical relevant issues.
  25. Students must be capable of communicating information, ideas, problems and solutions to both specialised and non-specialised audiences.
  26. Identify data sources and carry out rigorous bibliographical and documentary searches.
  27. Use metatheoretical data to argue and establish plausible relation of causality and establish ways of validating or rejecting them.
  28. Apply quantitative and qualitative analysis techniques in research processes.
  29. Produce and prepare the presentation of intervention reports and/or proposals.
  30. Apply different theories and focuses to the analysis of the main problems related to security, foreign policy and armed conflict and the promotion of peace.
  31. Make a reasoned application of different contemporary political theories to phenomena related to international security, international conflicts, foreign policies of the main states and the promotion of peace.
  32. Analyse the behaviour of different actors in the main topics and problems related to international security, international conflicts and the promotion of peace.
  33. Analyse public policies in specific countries, in particular foreign policies, and understand the traits of continuity and change in historical perspective.
  34. Use tools for the analysis of foreign policies and apply them to real and simulated case studies.

Contents

Contents


PART 1. INTRODUCTION.


Topic 1. Introduction to Foreign Policy Analysis.


Topic 2. Preliminary key concepts for the analysis of foreign policies.


PART 2. DOMESTIC LEVEL


Topic 3. Individuals in decision-making. Cognitive and psychological approaches.


Topic 4. Collective decision-making. Bureaucratic politics and organizational models.


Topic 5. Domestic culture. Ideas, values, and national identity.


Topic 6. Domestic politics, the media, and public opinion.


PART 3. BETWEEN THE INTERNATIONAL AND THE DOMESTIC


Topic 7. Two-level games. Domestic constraints in international negotiations.


Topic 8. Role theory. States as role players abroad.


Topic 9. Discourse and framing. Constructing meaning in foreign policy.


Topic 10. Workshop: Exploring games, roles, and discourses.


Topic 11. Feminist foreign policy.


PART 4. NEW PERSPECTIVES AND FUTURE CHALLENGES


Topic 12. Conclusions. Futures of Foreign Policy Analysis in a multipolar world.


Learning activities and methodology

Title Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Student-led study 50 2 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
Directed activities in the classroom with the support of ICT 45 1.8 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 30, 31, 32
Student-led preparation of exams, seminars, debates, group project 30 1.2 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 22, 23, 24, 25
Seminars and practical sessions in small groups 8 0.32 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
Debates, discussions and quizzes 5 0.2 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 25, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
Tutorships for the preparation of essays, exams and group projects 4 0.16 2, 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 12, 19, 20, 21

The course consists of 6 ECTS credits, which implies a total commitment of 150 hours by the students. These are distributed as follows:

Guided activities. Activities in the classroom (or on line) with the presence of the teacher and which can consist of master classes (with the support of ICT and with the possibility of developing debates in a large group); seminars to discuss compulsory readings in smaller groups and in sessions more oriented at practical issues, in which case, problems and examples related to the Teaching Guide will be analyzed (also on line). For these sessions, mandatory readings will be assigned in advance. These activities represent approximately one-third of the total work required (55 hours).

Supervised activities. Activities carried out by the student outside the classroom, as outlined in a work plan designed and subsequently supervised and evaluated by the teacher. Likewise, during the course, students should read short articles about which they will be able to comment on the text and, in addition, participate actively in debates about the reading material. Also included are tutoring and other similar activities of course monitoring (15 hours).

Autonomous activities. All activities carried out by students on their own and in accordance with the requirements to successfully pass the course may include compulsory and additional readings, studying class notes, and other activities that complement the training achieved in this course. These activities represent half of the students' work time (90 hours).

The teaching methodology is adapted to this distribution of work and activities.

Annotation: within the schedule set by the centre or degree programme, 15 minutes of one class will be reserved for students to evaluate their lecturers and their courses or modules through questionnaires.

Assessment

Continuous assessment activities

Title Weight Hours ECTS Learning outcomes
Mid-term exam 30% 2 0.08 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 28
Final exam 30% 2 0.08 3, 4, 5, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 27, 30, 31
Group exercise 25% 2 0.08 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34
In-class activities and participation 15% 2 0.08 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 23, 24, 25, 26, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34

The evaluation of this course consists of the following:

1. A midterm written exam, covering Part 1 and Part 2 of the course program: 30% of the final grade.

2. A final written exam, covering Part 3 of the course program: 30% of the final grade.

3. A group exercise: 25% of the final grade.

4. Continuous assessment: participation in class activities programmed by the teaching staff, such as debates, text commentaries, and quizzes, accounts for 15% of the final grade.

Important considerations: To pass the course, it is necessary to obtain a minimum grade of 5.0 in both the midterm exam and the final exam, and the weighted average final grade of the course must also result in a minimum grade of 5.0. If students fail to overcome the threshold in both written exams, they will be able to take part in a retake exam(s). The retake exam(s) will take place at the end of the semester, on the date scheduled by the Faculty for this activity.

The date of all evaluable activities will be announced with enough time in advance. This will allow students to prepare and complete all the assigned tasks.

If the student completes more than 60% of the activities to be evaluated, this cancels the possibility of receiving a grade of \"NOT EVALUABLE\".


Comprehensive evaluation

Students who have so requested in due time and form may participate in a single comprehensive evaluation (avaluació única) consisting of a written exam (60% of the grade) and two practical activities (40% of the grade). The content to be evaluated in the written section of this evaluation will be Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3 of the Teaching Guide (Syllabus) of the course, as well as the mandatory texts for each topic. The required texts will be those assigned for the 2026-27 academic year.

This comprehensive evaluation will take place at the end of the semester, on the day established by the Faculty for the final exam. To pass the comprehensive evaluation, it is necessary to obtain a minimum grade of 5. If the threshold is not met, the exams can be retaken on the date scheduled by the faculty for the retake exam. Please note, the practical activities of this comprehensive evaluation cannot be resubmitted. The revision of the grades will follow the same procedure as for the continuous evaluation.


Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Restricted Use: In this course, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies is permitted solely for specific purposes, such as brainstorming initial ideas, conducting initial information searches, correcting grammar and style, and translations. Students must indicate which parts of the work were generated using AI tools, identify the specific tools used, and include a critical reflection on the role and impact of these technologies in the learning and assessment process. Failure to disclose the use of AI will be considered a breach of academic integrity. It may lead to a partial or total loss of marks for the activity, or other academic sanctions as applicable. We invite you to reach out to the lecturers if you have AI uses in mind that you are unsure will comply with the rules, so that we can give feedback in advance. If we determine that their usage exceeds the established boundaries, we may request that you redo some or all of the assignment to comply with the rules. Academic integrity and original work are essential for rigorous and honest learning. These principles not only ensure fair assessment but also promote critical thinking, intellectual autonomy, and ethical responsibility in academic work. All of these elements reinforce mutual trust and consolidate an academic community based on respect and honesty.


Plagiarism and cheating

Plagiarism and cheating are veryserious offenses. These could result in a failing grade for the assigned task or exercise, or even lead to failure of the course.

Please review the \"Guia sobre Com Citar i Com Evitar el Plagi\"(in Catalan), prepared by the Facultat de Ciències Polítiques i de Sociologia: https://www.uab.cat/doc/GuiaCitesiPlagiEstudiants

Also, check the guides prepared by the Libraries Service of the UAB (Servei de Biblioteques):

- \"How to cite and create your bibliography\", available at: https://www.uab.cat/en/libraries/rcc/how-to-cite-prepare-bibliography

- \"Com citar i elaborar la bibliografía\", available at: https://www.uab.cat/ca/biblioteques/ccr/citacions-bibliografia

- \"Cómo citar y elaborar la bibliografía\", available at: https://www.uab.cat/es/bibliotecas/ccc/citaciones-bibliografia

-\"Intel·ligència Artificial: Presentació. Com podem utilitzar la intel·ligència artificial en l'àmbit acadèmic", available at: https://bibguies.uab.cat/ia


Academic integrity and assessment irregularities

Any irregularity committed in an assessment activity (including academic fraud, plagiarism, or the improper use of AI — unless such use is expressly authorized in the Teaching Guide) that may lead to a significant variation in the grade will result in that assessment activity being awarded a mark of zero. If the course Teaching Guide establishes that, in order to pass the course, students must obtain a minimum mark in that assessment activity, or if several irregularities occur in the assessment activities of the course, the final grade for the course will be zero. Furthermore, disciplinary proceedings may be initiated against any student who commits any of these irregularities. The teaching staff reserves the right to conduct oral interviews, or to set an alternative assessment, in order to verify the effective acquisition of knowledge and competences and, therefore, the validity of the assessment work completed by students.

Bibliography

Bibliography

The key textbooks for this course are:

- Alden, C., & Aran, A. (2017). Foreign policy analysis: new approaches (Second edition). Routledge. Electronic version available at: https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991008777749706709

- Hudson, V. M., & Day, B. S. (2020). Foreign policy analysis: classic and contemporary theory. Rowman & Littlefield. Electronic version available at: https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/avjcib/alma991010704739906709

- Mintz, A., & DeRouen, K. R. (2010). Understanding foreign policy decision making. Cambridge University Press. Electronic version available at: https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991010755324506709

- Smith, S., Hadfield, A., & Dunne, T. (2016). Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases (Third edition). Oxford University Press.

Relevant electronic books available at the website of UAB Libraries (list updated June 2026)

-Achilleos-Sarll, C., Haastrup, T., & Thomson, J. (2026). Feminist Foreign Policy: Energy and Resistance (C. Achilleos-Sarll, T. Haastrup, & J. Thomson, Eds.; 1st ed.). Bristol University. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/rokuu2/cdi_oapen_doabooks_176694

- Aggestam, K., Rosamond, A. B., & Hedling, E. (2024). The Politics of Feminist Foreign Policy and Digital Diplomacy (1st ed. 2024). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991010968351106709

- Berridge, G. R. (2022). Diplomacy : Theory and Practice (Sixthedition.). Springer InternationalPublishing. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1c3utr0/cdi_globaltitleindex_catalog_341691582

- Brummer, K. (2024). A Leader-Centered Theory of Foreign Policy Change: U.S. Foreign Policy toward Cuba under Obama. Bristol University Press. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1c3utr0/cdi_cambridge_corebooks_10_46692_9781529237726

- Burt, S. (Ed.). (2024). National Security in the Digital and Information Age. IntechOpen. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991011074881706709

- Charountaki, M., Kourtelis, C., & Irrera, D. (2024). Non-State Actors and Foreign Policy Agency: Insights from Area Studies (1st ed.). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1c3utr0/cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9783031518850

- Ciot, M.-G. (2014). Negotiation and foreign policy decision making. Cambridge Scholars Publishing. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1c3utr0/cdi_elibro_books_ELB148522

-Guo, H. (2026). Rethinking Chinese Foreign Policy: Security, Development, and Ideology (1st ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-5374-7. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/rokuu2/cdi_proquest_ebookcentral_EBC32555315

- Featherstone, C. (2025). The Road to War in Iraq: Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis (1st ed. 2025.). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991011104771306709

- Haas, M. (2023). Professionalization of Foreign Policy: Transformation of Operational Code Analysis (1st ed. 2023.). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1c3utr0/cdi_springer_books_10_1007_978_3_031_37152_3

- Jost, T. (2024). Bureaucracies at War: The Institutional Origins of Miscalculation (First edition.). Cambridge University Press. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991011021958706709

- Kiçmari, S. (2024). Introduction into Diplomacy (1st ed. 2024.). Springer Nature Singapore. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991010962920206709

- Lascano y Vedia, J. R., & Vedia, M. de. (2020). Hacia una nueva diplomacia: ideas para el diseño de una política exterior. Editorial Biblos. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991010518011506709

-Mballa, C., & Michaud, N. (2026). New Foreign Policy. (1st ed.). Palgrave Macmillan. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1fbc57r/alma991011326017306709

- Melissen, J. (Ed.). (2019). Debating public diplomacy: now and next. Brill .https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991010886133706709

- Morin, J.-F., & Paquin, J. (2018). Foreign policy analysis: a toolbox. Palgrave Macmillan. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991008778049706709

-Pinar Bilgin, K. S. (2024). Thinking Globally About World Politics: Beyond Global IR. Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-56572-4. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/rokuu2/cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9783031565724

- Pouliot, V. (2016). International pecking orders: the politics and practice of multilateral diplomacy (Firstedition.). Cambridge University Press. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991010752737306709

- Priego, A. (2015). Política exterior de los Estados Unidos. Universidad Pontificia Comillas. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991010567524106709

- Pursiainen, C., & Forsberg, T. (2021). The Psychology of Foreign Policy (1st ed.). Springer International Publishing. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1c3utr0/cdi_askewsholts_vlebooks_9783030798871

- Robinson, F., Zhukova, E., Philipson Garcia, D., Scheyer, V., E. Smith, K., Brummer, K., Achilleos-Sarll, C., Thomson, J., Singh Rathore, K., & Bergman Rosamond, A. (2024). Feminist Foreign Policy Analysis: A New Subfield. (1st ed.). Bristol University Press. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991011106090706709

-Salgado Espinoza, R. (2023). La política exterior de los Estados latinoamericanos: enfoques, metodologías y casos. SciELO - Editorial FLACSO Ecuador. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/rokuu2/cdi_scielo_ebooks_9789978677483

- Sims, J. E. (2022). Decision Advantage : Intelligence in International Politics from the Spanish Armada to Cyberwar (1st ed.). Oxford University Press. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1c3utr0/cdi_globaltitleindex_catalog_342751974

- Thompson, W. R., & Volgy, T. J. (2023). Shocks and PoliticalChange: A Comparative Perspective on ForeignPolicy Analysis (1st ed. 2023.). Springer Nature Singapore. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1eqfv2p/alma991010869962006709

- Trager, R. F. (2017). Diplomacy (1st ed.). Cambridge University Press. https://bibcercador.uab.cat/permalink/34CSUC_UAB/1c3utr0/cdi_proquest_ebookcentral_EBC5101862

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General recommended bibliography on foreign policy

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- Adigbuo, Richard (2007), \"Beyond IR theories: the case for national role conceptions\", Politikon, Vol. 34, No. 1, pp. 83-97.

- Aggestam, K., & Rosamond, A. B. (2019). “Feminist foreign policy 3.0: Advancing ethics and gender equality in global politics”. SAIS Review of International Affairs, 39(1), 37-48.

- Aggestam, K., & True, J. (2020). “Gendering foreign policy: A comparative framework for analysis”. Foreign Policy Analysis, 16(2), 143-162.

- Aggestam, K., Bergman Rosamond, A., & Kronsell, A. (2019). “Theorising feminist foreign policy”. International Relations, 33(1), 23-39.

- Aggestam, Karin; True, Jacqui. “Gendering foreign policy: A comparative framework for analysis”. Foreign Policy Analysis, 2020, 16.2: 143-162.

- Alden, Chris, y Aran, Ammon (2012), Foreign Policy Analysis. New approaches, London and New York: Routledge.

- Alons, Gerry C. (2007), \"Predicting a state's foreign policy: state preferences between domestic and international constraints\", Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 211-232.

- Aran, A., Brummer, K., & Smith, K. E. (2021). “Introduction: new directions in foreign policy analysis”. International Affairs, 97(2), 261-265.

- Arco Escriche, Inés (2022). \"Las políticas exteriores feministas: Más allá del discurso.\" Notes internacionals CIDOB 269, pp. 1-7.

- Barnett, Michael (1999). \"Culture, strategy and foreign policy change: Israel's road to Oslo.\" European Journal of International Relations, 5.1, pp. 5-36.

- Beach, Derek (2012), Analyzing foreign policy. Basingstoke: and New York: Palgave Macmillan.

- Beasley, Ryan K., Juliet Kaarbo, and Kai Oppermann. \"Role theory, foreign policy, and the social construction of sovereignty: Brexit stage right.\" Global Studies Quarterly 1.1 (2021): ksab001.

- Blomdahl, Mikael (2016). “Bureaucratic Roles and Positions: Explaining the United States Libya Decision”, Diplomacy & Statecraft, 27:1, pp. 142-161.

- Booth, Ken (2005), \"Strategic Culture: Validity and Validation\", Oxford Journal of Good Governance, Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 25-28.

- Carbone, Maurizio. \"Double two-level games and international negotiations: making sense of migration governance in EU-Africarelations.\" Journal of Contemporary European Studies 30.4 (2022): 750-762.

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- Degaut, Marcos (2020), “Leaping Jaguar, Crouching Tiger: Comparing the Strategic Culture of Brazil and India”, International Organisations Research Journal, vol. 15, no 3, pp. 223–247.

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- George, Alexander L. (1991), La decisión presidencial en política exterior. El uso eficiente de la información y el asesoramiento (Buenos Aires: Grupo Editor Latinoamericano).

- Hill, Christopher (2003), The changing politics of foreign policy.Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

- Holsti, K. J. (1970), \"National role conceptions in the study of Foreign Policy\", International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 14, No 3, pp. 233-309.

- Holsti, Kal (1970). “National role conceptions in the study of Foreign Policy”, International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 14, No 3, pp. 233-309.

- Hudson, V. M., & Day, B. S. (2020). Foreign policy analysis: classic and contemporary theory, 3rd edition. Rowman & Littlefield.

- Jarvis, Lee and Jack Holland (2014), “‘We [for]got him’: Remembering and Forgetting in the Narration of bin Laden’s Death”, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, Vol. 42(2), pp. 425–447.

- Jervis, Robert, (1976), Perceptionand Misperception in International Politics, Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press.

- Kaarbo, J. (2019). “A foreign policy analysis perspective on After Victory”. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 21(1), 29-39.

- Kaarbo, J. & Thies, C. (eds.) (2024). Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis. Oxford University Press.

- Kappler, Stefanie. \"The legitimisation of post-conflict intervention: Narrative frames of backwardness and progress.\" Political Geography 66 (2018): 130-138.

- Kubálková, Vendulka edit. (2001), Foreign Policy in a Constructed World, New York: M.E. Sharpe.

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Academic journals:

- Alternatives

- American Journal of International Law

- Asia Pacific Review Asian Security

- Asian Journal of Political Science

- Australian Journal of International Affairs

- British Journal of Politics and International Relations

- Cambridge Review of International Affairs

- China Quarterly

- Chinese Journal of International Politics

- Cold War History

- Contemporary Southeast Asia

- Diplomacy and Statecraft

- Diplomatic History

- European Journal of International Law

- European Journal of International Relations

- European Union Politics

- Europe-Asia Studies

- Foreign Affairs

- Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA)

- Georgetown Journal of International Law

- Global Change, Peace & Security (Routledge)

- Harvard Asia Pacific Review International

- Harvard International Law Journal

- International History Review

- International Studies Perspectives (ISP)

- International Organization

- International Political Sociology

- International Politics

- International Relations

- International Relations of the Asia-Pacific

- International Security

- International Studies Quarterly

- International Studies Review

- International Theory

- Japanese Journal of Political Science

- Journal of Southeast Asian Studies

- The Journal of Asian Studies

- Journal of Contemporary China

- Journal of European Integration

- Journal of the History of International Law

- Journal of International and Area Studies

- Journal of Peace Research

- Journal of Strategic Studies

- Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society

- Journal of World History

- Latin American Politics and Society

- Millennium

- New Political Economy

- Peace Review a Journal of Social Justice

- Perspectives on Politics

- Regional Studies

- Review of International Studies

- Security Studies

- The China Quarterly

- The Hague Journal of Diplomacy

- The National Interest

- The Pacific Review (Routledge)

- The Review of International Political Economy

- The Review of Politics

- The Washington Quarterly

- World Politics

Reviews or Magazines covering Foreign Policy

- Global Politics

- The Economist

- Le Monde Diplomatique

- Der Spiegel

- The Diplomat

- Politics East Asia

- Time

- World Politics Review

Other resources:

- Foreign Policy online: http://foreignpolicy.com/

- e-International Relations (student-friendly resource pool, by D. Little):http://www.e-ir.info/

- University of California-Berkeley's website \"Conversations with History\", hosts interviews with leading IR theory scholars, such as Kenneth Waltz, John Mearsheimer, Stephen Krasner and Robert Keohane: https://conversations.berkeley.edu

- Theory Talks.org has a number or interviews with other prominent IR Scholars, including Barry Buzan: http://www.theory-talks.org/

Software

Moodle, Office, PDF Readers. 

Course groups and languages

The information provided is provisional until November 30. After this date, you will be able to consult the language of each group through this link. To access the information, you will need to enter the course CODE

Type of teaching Group Language Semester Shift
(TE) Theory 1 English first semester morning-mixed
(PAUL) Classroom practices 1 English first semester morning-mixed