Foreign Policy

Sir Steve Smith is the UK Government's International Education Champion, and the Prime Minister's Special Representative to Saudi Arabia for Education. He was Vice Chancellor of the University of Exeter from 2002-2020Prof Amelia Hadfield is Dean International and Head of Department of Politics at the University of Surrey.Professor Tim Dunne is Provost and Senior Vice-President at the University of Surrey.Nicholas Kitchen is Senior Lecturer of International Relations and Director of the Centre for the Study of Global Power Competition, University of Surrey.

• 0: Steve Smith, Amelia Hadfield, Nicholas Kitchen, and Tim Dunne: IntroductionSection 1: Foreign policy analysis: history and theory1: Valerie M. Hudson: The history and evolution of foreign policy analysis2: William C. Wohlforth: Realism and foreign policy3: Michael W. Doyle: Liberalism and foreign policy4: Trine Flockhart: Constructivism and foreign policy5: Lene Hansen: Discourse Analysis, post-structuralism, and foreign policy6: Roberta Guerrina: Gender and foreign policy7: Priya Chacko and Vineet Thakur: Postcolonialism and foreign policySection 2: Analysing foreign policy: challenges, actors, tools8: Nicholas Kitchen: Strategic assessment and grand strategy9: Janice Gross Stein: Making decisions: rational, psychological, and neurological approaches10: Robert Patman: The national security state11: Michael Mastanduno: Economic statecraft12: Caitlin Byrne: Public diplomacy13: David Williams: Aid diplomacy14: Matt McDonald: Global challenge: shaping climate change policySection 3: Foreign policy case studies15: Graham Allison: The Cuban Missile Crisis16: Yuen Foong Khong: Neoconservatism and the domestic sources of American foreign policy: the role of ideas in Operation Iraqi Freedom17: Andrea Ghiselli: China's approach to the protection of its interests overseas18: Amrita Narlikar: India and the world: civilizational narratives in foreign policy19: Feliciano de Sa Guimaraes, Irma Silva and Miriam Saraiva: Brazil's rise and fall in world politics20: Gareth Stansfield and Allan Hassaniyan: The Arab/Persian Gulf as a subregional security complex21: Lisbeth Aggestam: The European Union: building a common foreign policy22: Amelia Hadfield: Energy and foreign policy: EU-Russia energy dynamics23: Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne: The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria24: Jeremy Youde: Global health governance and COVID-19

This is a great textbook which offers students a very helpful balance of theory and case studies. The inclusion of postcolonial analysis is very welcome.