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: Introduction Section 1: Foreign policy analysis: history and theory 1: Valerie M. Hudson: The history and evolution of foreign policy analysis 2: William C. Wohlforth: Realism and foreign policy 3: Michael W. Doyle: Liberalism and foreign policy 4: Trine Flockhart: Constructivism and foreign policy 5: Lene Hansen: Discourse Analysis, post-structuralism, and foreign policy 6: Roberta Guerrina: Gender and foreign policy 7: Priya Chacko and Vineet Thakur: Postcolonialism and foreign policy Section 2: Analysing foreign policy: challenges, actors, tools 8: Nicholas Kitchen: Strategic assessment and grand strategy 9: Janice Gross Stein: Making decisions: rational, psychological, and neurological approaches 10: Robert Patman: The national security state 11: Michael Mastanduno: Economic statecraft 12: Caitlin Byrne: Public diplomacy 13: David Williams: Aid diplomacy 14: Matt McDonald: Global challenge: shaping climate change policy Section 3: Foreign policy case studies 15: Graham Allison: The Cuban Missile Crisis 16: Yuen Foong Khong: Neoconservatism and the domestic sources of American foreign policy: the role of ideas in Operation Iraqi Freedom 17: Andrea Ghiselli: China's approach to the protection of its interests overseas 18: Amrita Narlikar: India and the world: civilizational narratives in foreign policy 19: Feliciano de Sa Guimaraes, Irma Silva and Miriam Saraiva: Brazil's rise and fall in world politics 20: Gareth Stansfield and Allan Hassaniyan: The Arab/Persian Gulf as a subregional security complex 21: Lisbeth Aggestam: The European Union: building a common foreign policy 22: Amelia Hadfield: Energy and foreign policy: EU-Russia energy dynamics 23: Karin Aggestam and Tim Dunne: The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria 24: 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.