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Title: Foreign policy theories
Description: Second year university notes on realist, liberalist and marxist analyses of foreign policy decision making, focussing on topics of power, sovereignty, conflict and security.
Description: Second year university notes on realist, liberalist and marxist analyses of foreign policy decision making, focussing on topics of power, sovereignty, conflict and security.
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Realism, liberalism and marxism in Foreign policy analysis
Structure
- Foreign policy focusses on agency in IR theories
Political realism in FPA
- states are central in IR (Waltz, 1979:93-94; Mastanduno & Kapstein, 1999:7): the
dream of super-national entities and realities is unrealistic and dangerous
- The centrality of states means that national interests motivates foreign policies
- Nations cannot afford not to focus on their selfish national interest only (Kissinger,
2014)
- Focus on defending one’s sovereignty- this interest is instrumental to all other
objectives
- Power, which is dependent on power resources (area, population, military hardware,
and the economic potential to sustain military strength) is an instrumental priority that
affects all world politics
- Foreign policies is about power struggles
- Morality is dangerous: moralist foreign policy supports ruthlessness that exploits
such naive approach
- Moralist foreign policy is not just an unrealistic and impractical approach, it is immoral
- eg
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- Post-classical realism (Brooks, 1997)- akin to defensive realism
Relative deprivation in power struggles
- expectation gap is created when expectations are higher than reality (Gurr) —>
security threat
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Geopolitical FPA
- security is driven by your own location: how you secure your own territory and expand
(relative gains)
- Command of the seas gives command of trade, which gives command of politics
(Mahan, 1905)
- Core-periphery relationships (Cardoso and Falsetto, 1979)
- World Politics as management of geographical territories (Kissinger, 2014)
Ideational explanations of foreign policies
- material reality in foreign policies becomes real and intelligible only through
interpretation, which is ideative action
Title: Foreign policy theories
Description: Second year university notes on realist, liberalist and marxist analyses of foreign policy decision making, focussing on topics of power, sovereignty, conflict and security.
Description: Second year university notes on realist, liberalist and marxist analyses of foreign policy decision making, focussing on topics of power, sovereignty, conflict and security.