20. Foreign Policy

Brenda Shaffer, University of Haifa, bshaffer@univ.haifa.ac.il

The Foreign Policy division welcomes proposals for papers and panels that address central issues in the study of foreign policy. It welcomes papers and panel proposals on topics analyzed from a wide variety of research paradigms. Proposals relating to both U.S. foreign policy and the study of the foreign policies of other states are encouraged. The division welcomes proposals from non-U.S. based scholars. Proposals on any aspect of foreign policy are welcome, but the division especially encourages panels on officially declared identity of the state (religion, ethnicity, liberal, environmentally friendly, etc.) and foreign policy. In addition, in keeping with the general theme of APSA 2008, the division is especially interested in panels and papers that address the interaction of inequality and foreign policy. Potential topics that could be explored in this context  are the dissimilar impact on states of global climate change and its impact on foreign policy; foreign politics related to  natural resource haves and have nots; new axes of states evolving in the international system  that attempt to appeal to perceived inequality in regions and the global system; the rise of the role of international corporations and tycoons as political actors in the international system;  the use of rhetoric of inequality by political movements, states, and organizations and its impact on foreign policy;  and the impact of states' foreign policies on existing social, political and economic inequalities.