Routledge Handbook of Foreign Policy Analysis Methods

<p>The disintegration and questioning of global governance structures and a re-orientation toward national politics combined with the spread of technological innovations such as big data, social media, and phenomena like fake news, populism, or questions of global health policies make it necessary for the introduction of new methods of inquiry and the adaptation of established methods in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). This accessible handbook offers concise chapters from expert international contributors covering a diverse range of new and established FPA methods. Embracing methodological pluralism and a belief in the value of an open discussion about methods’ assumptions and diverging positions, it provides new, state-of-the-art research approaches, as well as introductions to a range of established methods. Each chapter follows the same approach, introducing the method and its development, discussing strengths, requirements, limitations, and potential pitfalls while illustrating the method’s application using examples from empirical research. Embracing methodological pluralism and problem-oriented research that engages with real-world questions, the authors examine quantitative and qualitative traditions, rationalist and interpretivist perspectives, as well as different substantive backgrounds. The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars and students in global politics, foreign policy, and methods-related classes across the social sciences.</p><p>Chapters 4, 25 and 32 of this book are available for free in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.</p> <p><strong>Part I: Introduction </strong>1. Methods of Foreign Policy Analysis: Charting Ground, Engaging Traditions, and Opening Up Boundaries <strong>Part II: Perspectives on Foreign Policy </strong>2. Ideas, Identity, and Recognition: “Vision of Itself” in Foreign Policy Analysis 3. Ethnography <em>Iver B. Neumann </em>4. Norms and Norm Contestation 5. Feminism 6. Political Geography <strong>Part III: Language and Interpretive Methods </strong>7. Discourse Analysis and Discourse Theory 8. Narrative Analysis 9. Frame Analysis 10. Visual Analysis 11. Emotion Discourse Analysis <strong>Part IV: Psychology, Roles, and Leaders </strong>12. Role Theory 13. The Political Psychology of Threat Assessment 14. Measuring Perceptions: Combining Low and High Inference Approaches to Data Analysis 15. Leadership Trait Analysis 16. Operational Code Analysis 17. Groupthink, Polythink, and Con-Div: Identifying Group Decision-Making Dynamics <strong>Part V: Quantitative and Comparative Approaches </strong>18. Comparative Foreign Policy 19. Quantitative Content Analysis 20. Statistical Analysis 21. Experimental Methods 22. Game Theory 23. Public Opinion Surveys 24. Qualitative Comparative Analysis <strong>Part VI: Qualitative Methods and Historical Approaches </strong>25. Process Tracing: An Analyticist Approach 26. Interviews 27. Historical Analysis 28. Oral History 29. Archival Research <strong>Part VII: New Technology, Social Media, and Networks </strong>30. Big Data Analysis 31. Analyzing Twitter 32. Discourse Network Analysis 33. Text as Data 34. Conflict Event Data </p>