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Jackson & Sørensen: Introduction to International Relations 3e

Chapter 09

  1. What is foreign policy analysis fundamentally concerned with?

  2. Which is the best approach to foreign policy analysis, and why?

  3. Which level of foreign policy analysis makes most sense, and why?

  4. Should foreign policy be confined to foreign ministries or state departments (as Realists and International Society Scholars argue) or should it extend to groups in society as well (as Liberals argue)?

  5. How useful is the RAM approach for explaining the US decision to go to war in the Persian Gulf in 1991?

  6. Can theories of foreign policymaking be applied in making foreign policy decisions or can they only be used to explain those decisions after they have been made?

  7. How sceptical should we be about the capacities of foreign policy-makers?

  8. Is foreign policymaking basically a matter of pursuing and defending the national interest of states, as realists argue, or is it more than that?

  9. How far should governments rely on think tanks in foreign policymaking?

  10. Does the notion of foreign policy assume that governments are rational?