The Foreign Policy Analysis extension specialisation provides students with a rigorous account of the ways in which states and their representatives formulate and implement their foreign policy objectives. The specialisation explores how and why states have particular foreign policy priorities, the various parts of national government that interact in the foreign policy formulation process, and the different strategies that are available to states when seeking to realise their foreign policy goals. The specialisation also examines the importance of diplomacy and diplomats to the foreign policy agendas of states, identifying the history and contemporary practice of diplomacy.
Learning Outcomes
Appreciate the different reasons why states have foreign policy goals
Understand the foreign policy making process, and the different actors, institutions and levels of analysis that help explain this process
Critically evaluate the role of diplomats within the policy making, and policy implementing, processes
Understand the relationship between International Relations Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis as seperate but related fields of research
Relevant Degrees
Requirements
This specialisation requires the completion of 24 units, which must include:
24 units from completion of the courses in the following list:
DIPL8006 Diplomacy, Politics and the United Nations
DIPL8009 Diplomacy: from Cuneiform Clay to Digital Tablets
DIPL8012 Special Topics in Diplomacy
DIPL8044 Negotiation and Conflict Resolution
INTR8017 Issues in Australian Foreign Policy
INTR8068 Foreign Policy Analysis
NSPO8028 History for Policymakers
POGO8045 International Policy Making in the Shadow of the Future
ANIP6503 Australian National Internship Program A
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