Introduction to Foreign Policy
Class: IS401 Created Time: September 30, 2021 2:29 PM Database: Class Notes Database Last Edited Time: October 14, 2021 2:30 PM Type: Lecture
- What is Foreign Policy?
- Are the decision that protects the interest of the state and govern any actions taken beyond the territory of the state
- THe strategy or approach
- Agent, structure, and context of Foreign Policy
- Debates among IR scholars and Theorists
- Neo-Realism uses external structural factors that influences Foreign Policies (Aussenpolitik)
- Domestic Actors Theory: internal or domestic factors influence Foreing Policy (Innenpolitik)
- Neoclassical Realism: Both are factors, but external matters more than internal factors
- Constructivism: Collective norms & identity are what influences Foreign Policy.
- Foreign policy objectives are national interests
- Core objectives/interests: ex: independence, sovereignty, territory… (raison d’etre)
- Middle range objectives: ex: international cooperation, prestige…
- Universal long range objectives: Restructuring international system/order
- The levels proposed by Kenneth Waltz in his book Man, the State, and War with his 3 images of IR that link with levels
- international anarchy
- internal structure of states
- human behaviour