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Making Foreign Policy
Learning objectives
- This chapter introduces you to the interactions of public officials and scholars at the four phases of foreign policymaking. You will learn how these actors use different types of power and foreign policy tools.
- Foreign policy represents the interface between internal and external factors that can explain the behavior of a government.
- International relations theories influence the ways in which leaders and publics perceive the world and what strategies they will pursue.
Key concepts and terms
- Acquiescent strategy
- Adaptation strategies
- Arms embargo
- Carrots
- Civic nationalism
- Coercive diplomacy
- Diplomacy
- Economic sanctions
- Ethnonationalism
- Failed or collapsed state
- Foreign policy
- Foreign policy style
- Foreign policy tradition
- Four phases of the foreign policy making process
- Fragile state
- Great power
- Hard power
- Ideational interest
- Intransigent foreign policy
- Material interest
- Middle powers
- Modern state
- National interest
- National self-determination
- Niche diplomacy
- Nonpolar world
- Normative orientation
- Positivists
- Postmodern state
- Premodern state
- Preservative strategy
- Promotive foreign policy
- Public diplomacy
- Reciprocity
- Security dilemma
- Sermons
- Size (in terms of resources, geography, etc.) and foreign policy behavior.
- Soft power
- Standard operating procedures (SOPs)
- Statecraft
- Sticks