20: Foreign Policy

Michael Desch, Notre Dame University, mdesch@nd.edu

The Foreign Policy division welcomes proposals for papers and panels that address central issues in the study of foreign policy in the security, economic, political, and cultural realms. Given the 2010 annual meeting's theme "The Politics of Hard Times," proposals for panels and papers that specifically address how states confront extraordinary challenges in their foreign policies will be particularly welcome. Proposals could address this topic from a wide variety of methodological and substantive approaches as well as in a variety of different ways ranging from broad comparisons across states to in-depth studies of how individual states at particular times confronted extraordinary events like major wars, significant economic crises, or rapid and unprecedented political, cultural, or technological change.