I(i)nternational R(r)elations, Realism and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA): contextualizing the invention of FPA

I(i)nternational R(r)elations, Realism and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA): contextualizing the invention of FPA

Authors

  • Pedro Emanuel Mendes Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais. Universidade Nova. IPRI-NOVA.Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Lusíada Porto FDULP. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6321-8344

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2317-773X.2020v8n1p64-88

Keywords:

Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA), Realism, Phenomenological approach, Scientific-comparative approach, FPA Historiography

Abstract

This article provides a contextualization of the birth of the Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA). It presents a historiographic analysis of the FPA invention and its relationship with the formative years of the discipline of International Relations (IR). Its purpose is to illuminate the relationship between history and the theory of the origin of the FPA as an autonomous field of study. The article is organized into three parts. First, it identifies the European and US origins of the study of foreign policy and its connection with policy sciences. Second, it
relates the emergence of Realism with the traditional study of foreign policy and synthesizes the main theoretical and methodological criticisms introduced by the FPA. Finally, it presents an analysis of the main theoretical frameworks and innovations of the approaches that invented FPA. The article defends two arguments. First, the invention of the FPA is inscribed in a historical and academic context of a protest against the traditional view of thinking and studying foreign policy. Second, it is necessary to assume the interconnection between historical and scientific contexts in the theoretical evolution of IR and FPA.

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Author Biography

Pedro Emanuel Mendes, Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais. Universidade Nova. IPRI-NOVA.Faculdade de Direito da Universidade Lusíada Porto FDULP.

Investigador do IPRI-NOVA, Lisboa e Professor Auxiliar da Universidade Lusíada, Porto, Portugal. Doutorado em Relações Internacionais pela Universidade Nova de Lisboa, tem um especial interesse pelo estudo da interação entre ideias, factos, poder e conhecimento. Com dezenas de trabalhos publicados, as suas principais àreas de investigação são a Teoria das Relações Internacionais, a Análise da Política Externa, a História Contemporânea de Portugal e as Elites. Os seus artigos aparecem na Análise Social, na Relações Internacionais, na Brazilian Journal of International Relations, na População e Sociedade, na Estudos Internacionais, na Austral: Journal of Strategy & International Relations, na Tempo e Argumento e na Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais

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2020-04-24

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Mendes, P. E. (2020). I(i)nternational R(r)elations, Realism and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA): contextualizing the invention of FPA: I(i)nternational R(r)elations, Realism and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA): contextualizing the invention of FPA. Estudos Internacionais: International Relations Journal of PUC Minas, 8(1), 64–88. https://doi.org/10.5752/P.2317-773X.2020v8n1p64-88

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