Foreign Policy Analysis

Becoming Rivals

The Process of Interstate Rivalry Development

By Brandon Valeriano

Series: Foreign Policy Analysis

Rivalries are a fundamental aspect of all international interactions. The concept of rivalry suggests that historic animosity may be the most fundamental variable in explaining and understanding why states commit international violence against each other. By understanding the historic factors...

Published March 5th 2015 by Routledge

American Trade Politics and the Triumph of Globalism

By Orin Kirshner

Series: Foreign Policy Analysis

A deep and unresolved tension exists within American trade politics between the nation’s promotion of an open world trading system and the operations of its democratic domestic political regime. Whereas most scholarly attention has focused on how domestic politics has interfered with the United...

Published May 1st 2014 by Routledge

Prospect Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis in the Asia Pacific

Rational Leaders and Risky Behavior

By Kai He, Huiyun Feng

Series: Foreign Policy Analysis

Why does North Korea behave erratically in pursuing its nuclear weapons program? Why did the United States prefer bilateral alliances to multilateral ones in Asia after World War II? Why did China become "nice"—no more military coercion—in dealing with the pro-independence Taiwan President Chen...

Published December 19th 2012 by Routledge

When Things Go Wrong

Foreign Policy Decision Making under Adverse Feedback

Edited by Charles F. Hermann

Series: Foreign Policy Analysis

What happens when a government begins a major foreign policy commitment and then later receives new information that it is failing? The question of how to deal with adverse feedback to high-stakes foreign policy speaks to a number of important, current scenarios in international relations. Indeed,...

Published December 19th 2011 by Routledge

The Unilateralist Temptation in American Foreign Policy

By David Skidmore

Series: Foreign Policy Analysis

The pattern of multilateral engagement and unilateral retrenchment in American foreign policy from the Cold War through the Clinton, Bush, and Obama years presents a puzzle. What accounts for the unilateralist turn? Is it a passing aberration attributable to the neoconservative ideology of the Bush...

Published December 8th 2010 by Routledge