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Foreign Policy

The Section on Foreign Policy is the organization for those interested in multilevel approaches to the study of international relations. The section emphasizes individual, role, organizational, bureauratic, societal, and/or state, as well as situational and system level variables in foreign policy analyses. Members of the section employ a wide range of approaches, including historical, normative, rational, behavioral, liberal, institutional, psychological, and constructivist. Section members emphasize comparative as well as American studies of foreign policy.  The section recognizes the contributions of practitioners as well as academics in a broad range of professions and disciplines, e.g., communications, economics, diplomacy, government, history, political science, public opinion polling, philosophy, psychology, and sociology.


2009 - 2010 Officers

Chair:
Christopher Sprecher
Texas A&M University
Political Science
2104 Allen Building Building
College Station, TX 77843-4348
sprecher@politics.tamu.edu

Secretary/Treasurer:
Ozgur Ozdamar
Bilkent University
06800 Bilkent, Ankara Turkey

2010 Program Chair:
Michael C. Desch
Notre Dame University
Political Science
217 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame IN 46556
mdesch@nd.edu

Executive Council:
Huiyun Feng, University of Utah
Karl R. DeRouen, University of Alabama
A. Cooper Drury, University of Missouri
Brenda Shaffer, University of Haifa
Jennifer Whitten-Woodring, University of Southern California


 

Awards

The Best Faculty Paper Award is given for the best paper presented at a Foreign Policy Section panel at the 2008 APSA Annual Meeting.  Chairs of panels sponsored or co-sponsored by the foreign policy division are invited to nominate the best paper presented.  

The Best Graduate Student Paper
Panel chairs from any division are invited to nominate outstanding graduate student papers presented at the 2008 APSA annual meeting that are relevant to the study of foreign policy.