International Policy Formulation

This component provides students with in-depth knowledge of the process of international/foreign policy formulation, its characteristics and factors affecting international/foreign policy planning and making. The orientation in this component is more theoretical and process-oriented than substantive or interpretive. The focus is policy inputs and the decision-making process rather than policy outputs.

1.Introduction to Public Policy and Foreign Policy: Key concepts

Understanding National Interests and National Power, how the power of a nation influences its foreign policies; Hard Power, Soft Power, and Smart Power

Reading:

Smith, Steve., Hadfield, Amelia. and Dunne, Timothy. (eds) (2016) Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Introduction.

Valerie M. Hudson (2020), Foreign Policy Analysis: Classic and Contemporary Theory. 3nd. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Introduction.

2.Theoretical and historical perspectives - Realism and foreign policy, Liberalism and foreign policy, Constructivism and foreign policy

Reading:

Smith, Steve., Hadfield, Amelia. and Dunne, Timothy. (eds) (2016) Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Section 1.

3. Actors, context, and goals

Reading:

Smith, Steve., Hadfield, Amelia. and Dunne, Timothy. (eds) (2016) Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases, Oxford: Oxford University Press, Section 2.

Valerie M. Hudson (2020), Foreign Policy Analysis: Classic and Contemporary Theory. 3nd. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Part II.

4.Evolution of Foreign Policy in the 21st Century

Reading:

Valerie M. Hudson (2020), Foreign Policy Analysis: Classic and Contemporary Theory. 3nd. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. Chapter 8.

5.Foreign Policy Formulation in Vietnam

Reading

Hiep, Le Hong and Anton Tsvetov. (2018). Vietnam's Foreign Policy under Doi Moi. 1 ed. ISEAS–Yusof Ishak Institute, 2018. Part 1.

Alexander L. Vuving. (2023). The Evolution of Vietnamese Foreign Policy in the Doi Moi Era in Borje Ljunggren and Dwight H. Perkins, eds., Vietnam: Navigating a Rapidly Changing Economy, Society, and Political Order (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2023), pp. 347-369.

6.Foreign Policy Formulation in the United States

Reading:

Cihan Zhang (2022). Analysis of Trump’s Foreign Policies. Proceedings of the 2022 8th International Conference on Humanities and Social Science Research (ICHSSR 2022).

https://www.atlantis-press.com/article/125974728.pdf

Smith, Steve., Hadfield, Amelia. and Dunne, Timothy. (eds) (2016) Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 14 (Section 3)

7.Foreign Policy Formulation in China

Reading:

Ruta, M. (2019) New silk roads: The economics of the belt and road initiative. Washington, D.C., DC: World Bank Publications.

Smith, Steve., Hadfield, Amelia. and Dunne, Timothy. (eds) (2016) Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 17 (Section 3)

8.Foreign Policy Formulation in the EU

Reading:

Benjamin Pohl & Niels van Willigen (2015) Analytic Eclecticism and EU Foreign Policy (In)action, Global Society, 29:2, 175-198, DOI: 10.1080/13600826.2015.1029443

Smith, Steve., Hadfield, Amelia. and Dunne, Timothy. (eds) (2016) Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Chapter 18 &20 (Section 3)

9.Foreign Policy Formulation in Russia

Reading:

Lo, BoBo. (2015).. Russia and the New World Disorder. Brookings Institution Press. Chapter 1

https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/chapter-one-12.pdf

10.Foreign Policy Formulation in Poland

(Doing independent research)

Obligatory reading:

• Smith, Steve., Hadfield, Amelia. and Dunne, Timothy. (eds) (2016) Foreign policy: theories, actors, cases, Oxford: Oxford University Press.

• Valerie M. Hudson (2020), Foreign Policy Analysis: Classic and Contemporary Theory. 3nd. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

Supplementary reading:

1. Miriam Fendius Elman, "The Foreign Policies of Small States: Challenging NeoRealism in its Own Backyard." British Journal of Political Science, 25/2 (April 1995), pp. 171-217.

2. Jonathan Monten and Andrew Bennett, “Models of Crisis Decision Making and the 1990-91 Gulf War.” Security Studies, 19, 3 (2010): 486-520.

3. Janice Gross Stein, “Threat Perception in International Relations.” In Leonie Huddy, David O. Sears, and Jack S. Levy, eds., Handbook of Political Psychology, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. 364-94

4. Paul A. Kowert and Margaret G. Hermann, "Who Takes Risks: Daring and Caution in Foreign Policy Making." Journal of Conflict Resolution, 41,5 (October 1997), 611-37.

5. Alexander L. George and Eric Stern, “President Management Styles and Models. In Alexander L. George & Juliette George, Presidential Personality & Performance. Boulder, Westview, 1998. Pp. 199-280