Importance Of Foreign Policy Analysis

Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is Essentially the Study of Actors and Agency

Module: Comparative Foreign Policy: Issues and Cases

Code: 13Eup603

Tutors: Professor Lee Miles

Student: Kaiyue Luan

ID: B325596

Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is Essentially the Study of Actors and Agency

Due to the increasing domestic and foreign affairs and they are more intertwined, the growing of public interest, areas always has multiple goals. This is a focal point for the debate, to discuss how the country may act the world, what effects may be caused and which peril need to avoid. Foreign policy will be provided through political agency which involved many persons and some organizations. Obviously, the largest beneficiary in the foreign policy making is its actor. However, principal actor in international politics is the state. Thus, foreign policies only conducted by the state. Foreign policy analysis is a tool to evaluate the foreign policies. In other words, foreign policy analysis is essentially the study of actors and agency in a certain extent. In this article, we will have an analysis to evidence foreign policy analysis is essentially the study of actors and agency in a certain extent rather than totally.

Foreign policy has been the subject of reflection for diplomacy, for more than 2,000 years, from Thucydides through Machiavelli to Grotius (Christopher Hill, 2003). Nowadays, in politically foreign policy has been given more attention. Although, the study of interstate relations has already existent, and developed to the international relations, until World War II, FPA has been as a distinct and consciously theoretical enterprise ((Valerie M. Hudson and Christopher S. Vore, 1995). At first, during 1950s-60s, the ...

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