Description
This panel will discuss original and innovative theory-guided works in the field of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). The hallmarks of FPA are its penchant for actor-specific, middle-range theorising and for interdisciplinary and multidimensional perspectives. Theoretical approaches in the field can be differentiated along several dimensions, such as levels of analysis, whether they are structural or agent-orientated, or whether they are constructivist, rationalist or cognitive/psychological. At the same time, FPA has a rich tradition of efforts at theoretical integration. Against this background, this panel brings together papers that elaborate on different theoretical perspectives in FPA and apply these perspectives to a broad range of specific empirical puzzles using a variety of methods.
