title: Methods of Foreign Policy Analysis
abstract: Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) has become a major subfield of International Relations (IR). Contemporary FPA applies a broad range of approaches, drawing on IR’s meta-theories as well as domestic-level, psychological, and cognitive theories of foreign policy decision-making. This gives testament to a considerable diversity as FPA has established a panoply of relations to other disciplines and sciences that enrich its analytical capabilities. Despite the achieved level of sophistication though, de