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As a sub-discipline of political science Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) typically focuses on the decision-making process and its conditions. It contains, for instance, research on decision-making and group dynamics, bureaucratic politics and analogies to cybernetic processes as well as research on perceptions and misperceptions (see Hudson and Vore, 1995; Garrison, 2003; Carlsnaes, 2008). Due to its primary actor-centric research focus, however, FPA appears incapable of delivering convincing systemic explanations for the fundamental changes in world affairs that have been witnessed in the last 25 years. Therefore, in comparison with systemic International Relations (IR) theories and the latest global governance research, FPA has significantly lost scholarly attention (Carlsnaes, 2002, 331; Houghton, 2007, 26). In particular, the so-called and ever more prominent global governance research is questioning the future relevance of single states’ foreign policies, the idea of the nation-state as such and the meaning of territorial boundaries. Understood this way, states and their foreign policies are considered as executing powers the control of which is beyond their capabilities. Seen from this perspective, globalization appears to be a process driven forward by its own dynamics (Bartelson, 2000, 189).
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Roos, U. (2015). Beliefs and Loyalties in World Politics: A Pragmatist Framework for Analysis. In: Hellmann, G., Jørgensen, K.E. (eds) Theorizing Foreign Policy in a Globalized World. Palgrave Studies in International Relations Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137431912_9
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