Print syllabusForeign Policy Analysis
General data
| Course ID: | WSM.CSMIR-IRPUB-14 |
| Erasmus code / ISCED: | (unknown) / (unknown) |
| Course title: | Foreign Policy Analysis |
| Name in Polish: | Foreign Policy Analysis |
| Organizational unit: | Centre for International Studies and Development |
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| ECTS credit allocation (and other scores): |
4.00
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| Language: | English |
Classes in period "2023/2024 summer semester" (in progress)
| Time span: | 2024-02-26 - 2024-06-16 |
 
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| Type of class: |
Workshop, 30 hours, 12 places
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| Coordinators: | Tomasz Pugacewicz | |
| Group instructors: | Tomasz Pugacewicz | |
| Students list: | (inaccessible to you) | |
| Examination: | Course - Examination | |
| Goals of education: | The course aims at providing students with knowledge and skills of understanding foreign policy decision making as it is in fact (including limited rationality, different cognitive biases and domestic politic interferences like powerful economic interest groups domination). In result, it helps to avoid simplistic foreign policy interpretations associating decision-makers with abstract (and almost mechanical) rational actors. |
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| Learning outcomes of a component: | EK1: Knows and understands fundamental research problems associated with foreign policy analysis [EW_1+++] [EW_1++] [EW_1+] EK2: Has rudimentary knowledge in the area of foreign policy theories [EK_2+++] [EW_3++] [EW_4+] EK3: Has knowledge about political, economic and social processes determining foreign policy [EW_4+++] [EW_3++] EK4: Has the ability to analyze and prognose foreign policy [EU_1+] [EU_2++] [EU_3++] EK5: Has the ability to find necessary information, critically analyze information and synthesize them [EU_2++] [EU_6+] EK6: Has the ability to on its own or in group present ideas in the area of foreign policy [EU_2++] [EU_5+] [EU_6+++] EK7: Could critically asses ideas present in the public debate on foreign policy [EK_1+++] [EK_2:++] [EK_4++] |
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| Conditions of gaining credit: | Points that count for the overall grade can be obtained due to a student’s active participation in: -- in-class discussion (25%), -- group project (25%), -- final exam (50%). Student is required to pass each component (minimum passing score for each element is 50% + 1 points). |
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| Learning activities and teaching methods: | text analysis, situational method, conversation lecture with multimedia presentation, discussion, game, simulation, case study, solving tasks |
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| ECTS estimate: | Contact hours: 30 h Student’s own work: -- study of books/chapters, preparation for classes – 30 h; -- group project preparation – 30 h; -- preparation for an exam – 30 h. Total: 120 h (4 ECTS). |
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| Syllabus of the course for students commencing study programme from 19/20 academic year or later: | (in Polish) International Relations and Public Diplomacy, studia stacjonarne drugiego stopnia, rok 1 |
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| Full description: |
1. Course Introduction 2. What is Exactly Foreign Policy? Christopher Hill, Foreign Policy in International Relations, in Christopher Hill, Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century, London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2016, pp. 1-31. 3. Creative Directors or Structure’s Puppets in Foreign Policy: IR Theories and Agent-Structure Problem Walter Carlnaes, Actors, Structures, and Foreign Policy Analysis, in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases, Steve Smith et al. (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008, pp. 85-100. D. Beach, System-Level Factors and Domestic Factors, in D. Beach, Analyzing Foreign Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, New York–Basingstoke 2012, pp. 31-61 and 62-96. 4. In Search of the Holy Grail: History of Academic Struggles with Foreign Policy Valerie M. Hudson, The History and Evolution of Foreign Policy Analysis, in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases, Steve Smith et al. (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008, pp. 11-30. 5. Foreign Service’s Wonderland: Rational Actor Model Jack S. Levy and William R. Thompson, Causes of War, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell 2010, pp. 130-133. Christopher Hill, Rationality in Foreign Policy, in Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century, London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2016, pp. 115-135. 6. Inside Decision-Maker’s Brain: Psychological Models Janice Gross Stein, Foreign Policy Decision-Making: Rational, Psychological, and Neurological Models, in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases, Steve Smith et al. (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008, pp. 101-116. J.-F. Morin, J. Paquin, Do Decision-Makers Matter?, in J.-F. Morin, J. Paquin, Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox, New York: Springer Science+Business Media 2018, pp. 69-100. 7. Please, Let Me Stay at the Table: Groupthinking Trap Steve A. Yetiv, Groupthink and the Gulf Crisis, “British Journal of Political Science”, 33, 3 (2003), pp. 419-442 Marlene E. Turner and Anthony R Pratkanis, Twenty-five Years of Groupthink Theory and Research: Lessons from the Evaluation of a Theory, “Organizational behavior and human decision processes” 73, 2 (1998), pp. 105-115 8. The War of the Semi Kingdoms in the Executive: Bureaucratic Politics Model Kevin Marsh, Obama's Surge: A Bureaucratic Politics Analysis of the Decision to Order a Troop Surge in the Afghanistan War, “Foreign Policy Analysis”, 10, 3 (2014), pp. 265-288. Christopher Hill, Agents: Bureaucratic and the Proliferation of External Relations, in Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century, London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2016, pp. 86-115. 9. Consulting with Hundreds of (Little) Napoleons: (Domestic) Political System Institutions Role Baris Kesgin oraz Juliet Kaarbo, When and How Parliaments Influence Foreign Policy: The Case of Turkey's Iraq Decision, “International Studies Perspectives”, 11, 1 (2010), pp. 19-36. J.-F. Morin, J. Paquin, To What Extent Is Foreign Policy Shaped by Intuitions, in J.-F. Morin, J. Paquin, Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox, New York: Springer Science+Business Media 2018, pp. 127-150. 10. In Public Opinion We (Do Not) Trust: Media and Citizens Piers Robinson, The Role of Media and Public Opinion, in Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases, Steve Smith et al. (eds.), Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2008, pp. 137-154. Christopher Gelpi, Peter Feaver, Jason Reifler, Success Matters: Casualty, Sensitivity and the War in Iraq, “International Security”, 30, 3 (2005/2006), pp. 7-46. 11. Money and Factories of Ideas: Interest Groups and Think Tanks Donald E. Abelson, Theoretical Models and Approaches to Understanding the Role of Lobbies and Think Tanks in US Foreign Policy, in Policy Expertise in Contemporary Democracies, Stephen Brooks et al. (eds.), Farnham: Ashgate 2013, pp. 9-30. Bastian van Apeldoorn and Nana de Graaff, Corporate Elite Networks and US Foreign Policy: the Revolving Door and the Open Door under Obama, in Obama and the world : new directions in US foreign policy, Inderjeet Parmar et al. (eds.), London & New York: Routledge 2014, pp. 149-162. 12. (Not So) New Challenges in the Post-Post-Cold War Era: Integrating Obsession J.-F. Morin, J. Paquin, What Are the Current Challenges to FPA?, in J.-F. Morin, J. Paquin, Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox, New York: Springer Science+Business Media 2018, pp. 341-350. Alex Mintz, How Do Leaders Make Decisions? A Poliheuristic Perspective, “Journal of Conflict Resolution”, 48, 1 (2004), pp. 3-13. 13. Group Reports Presentation |
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| Bibliography: |
Obligatory literature: selected chapters from D. Beach, Analyzing Foreign Policy, Palgrave Macmillan, New York–Basingstoke 2012 Foreign Policy: Theories, Actors, Cases, Steve Smith et al. (eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008 Ch. Hill, Foreign Policy in the Twenty-First Century, London & New York: Palgrave Macmillan 2016 J.-F. Morin, J. Paquin, Foreign Policy Analysis: A Toolbox, New York: Springer Science+Business Media 2018 Supplementary literature: Valerie M. Hudson, Foreign Policy Analysis: Classic and Contemporary Theory, Lanham, Rowman & Littlefield, 2014 |
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