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.

2007 - 2008 Officers

Chair:
Alfred Cooper Drury
University of Missouri
Political Science
113 Professional Building
Columbia MO 65211-6030
drury@missouri.edu

Chair Elect:
Dr. Brenda Shaffer
University of Haifa
Political Science
Mount Carmel
Haifa 31905 Israel
bshaffer@univ.haifa.ac.il

Secretary/Treasurer:
Carolyn C. James
Stephens College
Political Science
Campus Box 2032
Columbia MO 65215
ccjames1@msn.com

2008 Program Chair:
Dr. Brenda Shaffer
University of Haifa
Political Science
Mount Carmel
Haifa 31905 Israel
bshaffer@univ.haifa.ac.il

Council:
Jeffrey Fields, (2006-2008), University of Southern California
Cameron Thies, (2006-2008), University of Missouri
Huiyun Feng, (2007-2009), University of Utah
Steven Redd, (2007-2009), University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

Awards

• Previous Award Recipients 

The Best Faculty Paper Award is given for the best paper presented at a Foreign Policy Section panel at the 2007 APSA Annual Meeting.  Chairs of panels sponsored or co-sponsored by the foreign policy division are invited to nominate the best paper presented.  Nominations should be submitted by December 1, 2007.  

The Best Graduate Student Paper
Panel chairs from any division are invited to nominate outstanding graduate student papers presented at the 2007 APSA annual meeting that are relevant to the study of foreign policy.  Nominations should be submitted by December 1, 2007.