PSI.305 Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis Course Information

PSI.305 Comparative Foreign Policy Analysis is a fifth semester must course targeting students of Political Science and International Relations Department. It aims at informing the students of International Relations on the ways foreign policy decision-making takes place with an emphasis on rational choice theories, yet, it also covers other approaches to decision-making and to foreign policy analysis in general.

The course has two major areas of focus: Firstly, it analyses different factors affecting foreign policy decision-making process, and secondly, it analyses how foreign policy decisions are carried out in different countries.