INR 321
Foreign Policy Analysis
Hacettepe University
Fall 2011-2012
Time: Friday 13.00-15.45
Room: DZ 13
Dr. Şebnem Udum
usebnem@hacettepe.edu.tr
Office: 04
Course Description: This course aims to familiarize students with the processes by which
foreign policy is made. It focuses on it as the outcome of systemic and domestic factors, and
ideational preferences. It will examine the primary sources of incentives, constraints and
preferences in foreign policy decision-making in general, and with respect specific cases
involving great and small power behavior.
Requirements:
Final grades will be assigned according to the student’s performance on the following items:
1.
2.
3.
4.
Attendance and Participation (or Quiz)
Presentation
Mid-term
Final
15 %
15 %
30 %
40 %
1. Regular attendance and participation (or Quiz): Students should be properly
prepared to constructively participate in class discussion. This means that you will
have completed the assigned readings before each class, attend class regularly, and be
on time for class (attendance will be taken). Absences from class will substantially
reduce this component of your grade. If there is insufficient participation from class,
there will be a quiz in the following session.
Students who have not attended 50 % of the classes will automatically receive an F in
the course no matter what their grade is in the midterm and the final exams (for
example; if you have 7 unexcused absences out of a total of 14 classes, you get an F
even if you have scored an A for both exams).
2. Presentation: Students will be asked to deliver presentations on specific cases of
foreign policy in accordance with the topic.
3. Mid-term and Final Exams: The exams will be short definition and essay based.
Students will be responsible from the information given in the class. The final will be
cumulative (from the beginning of the semester). The dates of the exams may change.
Any necessary course announcements will be emailed to students timely.
Make-up Policy
There are NO make-up exams for the course except for the cases of serious health issues
which should be documented.
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Policy on Academic Dishonesty
Cheating, plagiarism, or any other form of academic dishonesty will not be tolerated and will
result in an automatic grade of “F” for the course. You may also lose at least a semester as a
result of such acts.
Course Outline:
Week 1- Oct 7: Introduction
Week 2-Oct 14: What is foreign Policy and how do we analyze it?
Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield and Tim Dunne eds., Foreign Policy Analysis: Theories,
Actors, Cases, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, Chapters 1 and 5.
Laura Neack, The New Foreign Policy: Power Seeking in a Globalized Era, 2008, Chapter 1.
David Lake and Robert Powell, “International Relations: A Strategic-Choice Approach,” in
Strategic Choice and International Relations, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
Chapters 1 and 2.
Walter Carlsnaes, Thomas Risse and Beth Simmons, Handbook of International Relations,
2002, Chapter 1.
Recommended: Valerie Hudson, “Foreign Policy Analysis: Actor-Specific Theory and the
Ground of International Relations,” Foreign Policy Analysis, Vol.1, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 130.
System-Level Theories
Week 3-Oct 21: Rational Actor Theories: Realism and Power
Recommended: Robert Jackson and Georg Sorensen, Introduction to International Relations:
Theories and Approaches, Realism Chapter.
Recommended: John Baylis and Steve Smith, The Globalization of World Politics: An
Introduction to International Relations, Realism Chapter.
Neack, Chapter 2.
Smith, Hadfield and Dunne, Chapter 9.
Kenneth Waltz, Man, the State and War, New York: Columbia University Press, 1959,
Chapter 1.
Kenneth Waltz, “Structural Realism After the Cold War,” International Security, Vol. 25, No.
1, 2000, pp. 5-41.
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Week 4-Oct 28: Official break-make-up class due:
Rational Actor Theories: Liberalism: Domestic Groups, Institutions and Culture
Jackson and Sorensen, Liberalism Chapter.
Baylis and Smith, Liberalism Chapter.
Michael Doyle, “Liberalism and World Politics Revisited,” in Charles Kegley, ed.,
Controversies in International Relations Theory, 1995, Chapter 4.
Wolfgang Wagner, “Why the EU’s Common Foreign and Security Policy will Remain
Intergovernmental: A Rationalist Institutional Choice Analysis of European Crisis
Management Policy,” Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 576-595.
Week 5-Nov 4: International Norms, Non-State Actors and Foreign Policy
Peter Katzenstein, The Culture of National Security: Norms and Identity in World Politics,
1996, Chapters 1 and 2.
Ethan A. Nadelman, “Global Prohibition Regimes: The Evolution of Norms in International
Society,” International Organization, Vol. 44, No. 4, 1990, pp. 479-526.
Recommended: Nina Tannenwald, “The Nuclear Taboo: The United States and the Normative
Basis of Nuclear Non-Use,” International Organization, Vol. 53, No. 3, 1999, pp. 433-468.
Richard Price, “Reversing the Gun Sights: Transnational Civil Society Targets Land Mines,”
International Organization, Vol. 52, No. 3, 1998, pp. 613-644.
Yossi Shain, “Diasporas and US Foreign Policy,” Political Science Quarterly, Vol. 109, No.
5, pp. 811-841.
State-Level Theories
Week 6-Nov 11: Bureaucracies: Government, Organizational Theory and Groupthink
Graham Allison, Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis, 1971, Chapters 1
and 5.
Zeev Maoz, “Framing the National Interest: The Manipulation of Foreign Policy Decisions in
Group Settings,” World Politics, Vol. 43, No. 1, pp. 77-110.
Week 7-Nov 18: Identity, Ideas and Culture
Robert G. Herman, “Identity, Norms and National Security: The Soviet Foreign Policy
Revolution and the End of the Cold War,” in Peter Katzenstein, Chapter 8.
Jeffrey Checkel, “Ideas, Institutions, and the Gorbachev Foreign Policy Revolution,” World
Politics, Vol. 45, No. 2, 1993, pp. 271-300.
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Lucian W. Pye, “Political Culture Revisited,” Political Psychology, Vol. 12, No. 3, 1991, pp.
487-508.
Alastair I. Johnson, “Thinking About Strategic Culture,” International Security, Vol. 19,
1995, pp. 32-64.
Week 8-Nov 25: Mid-Term
Week 9- Dec 2: Public Opinion and Media
Smith, Hadfield and Dunne, Chapter 8
Ole Holsti, “Public Opinion and Foreign Policy: Challenges of the Almond-Lippmann
Consensus,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 36, No. 4, 1992, pp. 439-466.
Jeffrey A. Frieden, “Invested Interests,” International Organization, Vol. 45, 1991, pp. 425452.
Individual Level Theories
Week 10- Dec 9: Leadership and Psychology
Neack, Chapter 3.
Smith, Hadfield and Dunne, Chapter 6.
Margaret G. Hermann, Explaining Foreign Policy Behavior Using the Personal
Characteristics of Political Leaders,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol.24, No. 1, pp. 7-46.
Week 11-Dec 16: Critical and Constructivist Approaches
Jutta Weldes and Diane Saco, “Making State Action Possible: The United States and the
Discursive Construction of ‘The Cuban Problem,’” Millenium, Vol. 25, No. 2, 1996, pp. 361395.
Roxanne L. Doty, “Foreign Policy as Social Construction: A Post-positivist Analysis of US
Counterinsurgency Policy in the Philippines,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 37, No. 3,
1993.
Abigail E. Ruane, “‘Real Men’ and Diplomats: Intercultural Diplomatic Negotiation and
Masculunities in China and the United States,” International Studies Perspectives, Vol. 7, No.
4, 2006. pp. 342-359.
Week 12-Dec 23: Case Studies and Student Presentations
Week 13-Dec 30: Case Studies and Student Presentations
Week 14-Jan 6: Case Studies and Student Presentations
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