Foreign Policy Analysis and Realism
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Foreign Policy Analysis and Realism. / Wivel, Anders.
The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis. ed. / Juliet Kaarbo; Cameron Thies. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2024. p. 97-114.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Foreign Policy Analysis and Realism
AU - Wivel, Anders
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - Realists emphasize the importance of structural and systemic factors for foreign policy but differ in their views on the density of the international system, the typical foreign policy behaviour of states, the impact of domestic politics and individuals on foreign policy, and the relative weight of and interplay between material and ideational factors. They unpack the foreign policy challenges and opportunities following from the anarchic structure of the international system, explain how relative power matters for what states can and cannot do, and explore the mechanisms by which structural incentives are translated into foreign policy through decision-makers and domestic politics and discourses. The chapter provides a critical overview of realist approaches to foreign policy analysis (FPA) and discusses how one of these approaches, neoclassical realism, may be reconceptualized as a template for multi-factor and multi-level analysis benefitting from recent advances in FPA.
AB - Realists emphasize the importance of structural and systemic factors for foreign policy but differ in their views on the density of the international system, the typical foreign policy behaviour of states, the impact of domestic politics and individuals on foreign policy, and the relative weight of and interplay between material and ideational factors. They unpack the foreign policy challenges and opportunities following from the anarchic structure of the international system, explain how relative power matters for what states can and cannot do, and explore the mechanisms by which structural incentives are translated into foreign policy through decision-makers and domestic politics and discourses. The chapter provides a critical overview of realist approaches to foreign policy analysis (FPA) and discusses how one of these approaches, neoclassical realism, may be reconceptualized as a template for multi-factor and multi-level analysis benefitting from recent advances in FPA.
KW - Faculty of Social Sciences
KW - Realism
KW - Foreign Policy
KW - Neoclassical realism
KW - Foreign Policy Analysis
KW - Structural realism
KW - classical realism
U2 - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198843061.013.6
DO - 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198843061.013.6
M3 - Book chapter
SN - 9780198843061
SP - 97
EP - 114
BT - The Oxford Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis
A2 - Kaarbo, Juliet
A2 - Thies, Cameron
PB - Oxford University Press
CY - Oxford
ER -
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