Evolution of Foreign Policy Analysis

FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS FROM 1993 TO THE PRESENT

 As FPA was being liberated from its inconsistencies in the late 1980s, the world was being liberated from the chess match of the Cold War. This was a felicitous coincidence for FPA and was an added source of vigor for its resource agenda. The significance of this temporal coincidence can be understood by remembering what types of IR theory were in ascendance at the time: neorealist systems structure theory and rational choice modeling.

FPA in the post-Cold War era retains the distinctive theoretical commitments that demarcated at its inception. Indeed, FPA’s ability to ask new questions is perhaps more promising in relation to its future theoretical potential than any other indicator.