Announcements
Section Info
Officers
Datasets
Syllabi
Meetings
Organizations & Associations
Journals
Foreign Policy, APSA section 31
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This is the section home page of the Foreign Policy Section of the
American Political Science Association.
The site is intended to support teaching and research on subjects related
to foreign policy, including foreign policy analysis, the domestic sources
of foreign policy, and American foreign policy.
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Announcements!
- U.S. Dept. of State Request for Grant Proposals to organize a
six week-long, intensive graduate level summer institute
(beginning summer 2005) for foreign university faculty/scholars
on theme of "U.S. Foreign Policy". Click
here.
See also the Program Objectives, Goals, and Implementation document, as well as the standard Proposal Submission Instructions. - Older announcements...
Section Bylaws
Report on business meeting at APSA 2003
APSA 2004 Program
Information about the Section
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. And 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.
The Section organizes panels for the APSA Convention, offers an award for the best paper presented at Section panels at the APSA Convention, conducts workshops, and is planning other activities.
Officers
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Chairperson:
Paul Kowert
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Program Chair 2005 and chairperson-elect:
Patrick James
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Secretary/Treasurer:
Lisa Brandes
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Members at Large, Term expiring 2005: |
Jay Parker Dept. of Social Sciences United States Military Academy jay.parker@usma.edu
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Miriam Elman Department of Political Science Arizona State University miriam.elman@asu.edu
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Members at Large, 2 year term, 2004-2006: |
Gideon Rose Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs Council on Foreign Relations grose@cfr.org
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Bruce Jentleson Dept. of Political Science Duke University bruce.jentleson@duke.edu
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Datasets
If you have data sets to contribute to our listing, please let us know.
- Cingranelli and Richards Human Rights Dataset
- Website
This dataset contains standards-based quantitative information on government respect for 13 internationally recognized human rights for 162 countries, annually from 1981-2003. - Polity IV
- Website
The Polity IV dataset gives political regime characteristics and transitions from 1800-2002. - Penn World Table 6.1
- Website
The Penn World Table provides purchasing power parity and national income accounts converted to international prices for 168 countries for some or all of the years 1950-2000 - ICPSR
- Website
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research, a central source for a wide range of dataset.
Syllabi
Listing includes only syllabi less than a year old. Any suggestions for additions are most welcome.- American Foreign Policy
- Barry Lowenkron
(SAIS, Johns Hopkins University, Fall 2004)
David Rezvani (Harvard University, Summer 2004)
Stacie Goddard (Woodrow Wilson School, Princeton University, Spring 2004)
Jim Ray (Vanderbilt University, Spring 2004)
- Comparative Foreign Policy
- Laura Neack
(Miami University of Ohio, Fall 2004)
Ismene Gizelis (Chapman University, Spring 2004)
Chih-Chieh Chou (SUNY Buffalo, Spring 2004)
- Russian Foreign Policy
- Ted Hopf
(Ohio State University, Winter 2004)
- Chinese Foreign Policy
- Benjamin Read
(University of Iowa, Spring 2004)
Meetings & Conferences
- APSA 2004 (Chicago, IL, Sept. 2-5)
- Online Program
- ISA 2005 (Honolulu, HI, March 1-5)
- Conference Website
Organizations
- Foreign Policy Association
- Main website
- Foreign Policy in Focus
- Main website
- Foreign Policy Research Institute
- Main website
Journals
- Foreign Policy Magazine
- Foreign Affairs Magazine
- American Diplomacy
Foreign Service Despatches and Periodic Reports on United States Foreign Policy