Foreign Policy Analysis

1. Front Matter

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2. Why Study Foreign Policy Comparatively?

   • Marijke Breuning

   Pages 1-26

3. Do Leaders Shape Foreign Policy?

   • Marijke Breuning

   Pages 27-52

4. How Leaders Make Sense of the World

   • Marijke Breuning

   Pages 53-84

5. Leaders Are Not Alone: The Role of Advisors and Bureaucracies

   • Marijke Breuning

   Pages 85-113

6. Leaders in Context I: Domestic Constraints on Foreign Policy Making

   • Marijke Breuning

   Pages 115-139

7. Leaders in Context II: International Constraints on Foreign Policy Making

   • Marijke Breuning

   Pages 141-162

8. Who or What Determines Foreign Policy?

   • Marijke Breuning

   Pages 163-175

9. Back Matter

   Pages 177-207

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This book's introduction to foreign policy analysis focuses on decision makers and decision making. Each chapter is organised around puzzles and questions to which undergraduates can relate. The book emphasizes the importance of individuals in foreign policy decision making, while also placing decision makers within their context.

• decision-making
• foreign policy
• Policy

"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

MARIJKE BREUNING is Associate Professor of Political Science, Truman State University, USA.

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