Foreign Policy Analysis

Recommended Prerequisites

Basic knowledge of English.

Teaching Methods

The seminar-based format of the curricular unit presupposes active participation by the students. Besides the lecturer providing a conceptual framework from the outset, critical analysis and discussion of key texts are privileged throughout the sessions.

Learning Outcomes

Main learning outcome:

- Provide the students with the fundamental knowledge to understand international dynamics at the level of foreign policy, stimulating their critical analytical skills

 

Specific learning outcomes and skills:

- Familiarize students with the main theoretical and conceptual debates associated with the formulation and implementation of foreign policy, such as institutional structures, agenda setting, decision making processes.

- Provide students with basic frameworks to analyse States' foreign policies;

- Identify goals, actors and instruments involved in the formulation and conduction of foreign policies, applying them to concrete case-studies, such as the United States of America, the Russian Federation, the Popular Republic of China, India or South Africa, among others.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

Theoretical and conceptual foundations:

- Actors, dynamics and theoretical models for foreign policy analysis

Case studies (for instance):

- United States' foreign policy

- Russia's foreign policy

- China's foreign policy

- India´s foreign policy

- South Africa's foreign policy

The formulation of foreign policy in the 21st century: prospects and challenges.

Head Lecturer(s)

Maria Raquel de Sousa Freire

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Presentation and discussion: 30.0%
In-class participation and press review: 35.0%
Written work: 35.0%

Bibliography

FOREIGN Policy in Post-Apartheid South Africa: Security, Diplomacy and Trade. Editors Adekeye Adebajo, Kudrat Virk. London: I.B.Tauris, 2018.

HUDSON, Valerie. Foreign Policy Analysis: Classic and Contemporary Theory. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2013.

MORIN, Jean Fréderique; PAQUIN, Jonathan. Foreign Policy Analysis: a toolkit. London: Palgrave. 2018

NEACK, Laura. Studying Foreign Policy Comparatively: Cases and Analysis. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 4th edition, 2018.

ROUTLEDGE Handbook of Russian Foreign Policy. Editor Andrei Tsygankov. London : Routledge, 2018. 

SUTTER, Robert - Chinese Foreign Relations: Power and Policy since the Cold War. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016.

US FOREIGN policy. Editors Michael Cox, Doug Stokes. Oxford University Press. 3rd edition, 2018.

WOJCZEWSKI, Thorsten. India’s Foreign Policy Discourse and its Conceptions of World Order: The Quest for Power and Identity. London: Routledge, 2018.