Projektnummer

0065540

Zusammenfassung

The study adopts an eclectic conceptualization of the interplay of domestic politics and foreign policy. It builds on a set of classic Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) theories brought together in an integrative framework of 3-i: ideas, interests and institutions. Within the FPA literature each of the "i"s feature as central social phenomena within distinct research programmes. In this research these three concepts are treated as related and concurrent dimensions of domestic politics: elite ideas, regime interests and policy-making institutions. Together, the tripod of ideas, interests an...