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| List of Illustrative Material | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction: Analyzing Foreign Policy | |
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| Defining 'foreign policy' | |
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| What is the analysis of foreign policy? | |
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| What is theory? | |
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| A theoretical toolbox for the study of foreign policy | |
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| The assumptions and core arguments of the theoretical tools | |
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| What States Want | |
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| System-Level Factors | |
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| Structural realism: the survival of egoistic states in an anarchic world | |
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| Liberalism: institutions and interdependence creates a new context for states | |
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| Constructivism: different cultures of anarchy, national interests and identity | |
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| Domestic Factors | |
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| Neoclassical realism: anarchy with a domestic face | |
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| Liberalism: opening up the black box | |
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| Social constructivism at the state level: interest and identity construction | |
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| Decision-Making | |
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| Understanding the Choice Situation | |
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| The Rational Actor Model (RAM) | |
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| Cognitive theories: a more realistic understanding of the collection and processing of information | |
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| Making Choices | |
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| Cognitive and social-psychological theories of decision-making | |
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| The politics of choice: foreign policy decisions as the product of political battles | |
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| What States Do | |
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| Security Policies | |
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| War and security foreign policies | |
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| Why states prefer certain military/strategic options over others: the role of strategic culture | |
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| Preventing war: creating stable balances of power | |
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| Preventing war: deterrence and coercive diplomacy | |
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| Preventing war: strong liberal theories on transformations due to democracy and interdependence | |
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| Conflict resolution and the termination of international conflicts | |
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| Diplomacy | |
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| Negotiations as a form of diplomacy | |
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| Two-level games | |
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| Negotiations and culture | |
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| Economic Foreign Policies | |
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| Trade policies | |
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| Economic sanctions and aid: the sticks and carrots of economic statecraft | |
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| Foreign developmental aid | |
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| A Transformation of State Foreign Policy-Making? | |
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| Globalization and the end of the state-centric world? | |
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| Foreign policy-making beyond the state? | |
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| Analyzing Foreign Policy: Research Strategies and Methods | |
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| Choosing research questions | |
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| Choosing an appropriate research strategy | |
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| Deductive, theory-testing research designs | |
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| Inductive, theory-building research designs | |
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| The methodology of post-structuralist foreign policy analysis: a brief guide | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |