Foreign Policy Analysis

Course content

This course provides an examination of the discipline of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) and to make students “how to think” about foreign policy pheomena and “how to analyse” foreign polices of individual states, and actors in the field. Accordingly this course intends to provide a background about the field and then develop the necessary skills to understand and critically analyse the complex interaction between foreign policy and international relations, domestic/external environments, leaders, statesmen, bureaucracy, history, decision and policy making, foreign policy implementation, culture, media, public opinion, etc., and to assess the current issues and developments in foreign policy environment.