1 Introduction: foreign policy as public policy: exploring promises and pitfalls of public policy approaches for foreign policy analysis - Klaus Brummer, Sebastian Harnisch, Kai Oppermann and Diana Panke
Part I: Actor-centered perspectives
2 The multiple streams approach in foreign policy - Spyros Blavoukos
3 Punctuated equilibrium theory and foreign policy - Jeroen Joly and Friederike Richter
4 Foreign policy applications of the advocacy coalition framework - Jonathan J. Pierce and Katherine C. Hicks
5 Veto player approaches in public policy and foreign policy - Kai Oppermann and Klaus Brummer
Part II: Structural perspectives
6 New institutionalism and foreign policy - Siegfried Schieder
7 The network approach and foreign policy - Christopher Ansell and Jacob Torfing
8 Policy diffusion and transfer meet foreign policy - Katja Biedenkopf and Alexander Mattelaer
9 Policy learning in public policy studies: toward a dialogue with foreign policy analysis - Sebastian Harnisch
10 Conclusion: the promise and pitfalls of studying foreign policy as public policy - Juliet Kaarbo
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Foreign policy as public policy?explores how foreign policy analysis can be enriched by ‘domestic realm’ public policy approaches, concepts, and theories. In many ways foreign policy has become more similar to, and intertwined with, ‘domestic’ public policies: this book bridges the divide that still persists between the two fields.
The chapters within cover arguably the most important public policy approaches — multiple streams, advocacy coalition, punctuated equilibrium, and veto player approaches — to explore how they can contribute to the analysis of foreign policy. With dedicated chapters on each of the selected approaches by leading experts in their fields, they discuss how the approaches can be adapted and transferred to the study of foreign policy and illustrate the benefits this can bring in empirical case studies on a range of foreign policy puzzles.

The book also points to the main challenges in transferring public policy approaches to the analysis of foreign policy and examines the conditions under which the unique character of foreign policy makes this less promising. By establishing a critical dialogue between approaches in public policy and research on foreign policy, the main contribution of the book is to broaden the available theoretical ‘toolkit’ in foreign policy analysis and to encourage theoretical innovation in the discipline.

The book complements existing works on foreign policy theories and will be of interest to researchers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in International Relations Foreign Policy Analysis and Comparative Politics.