| ID | 117201 |
| Title Proper | Synthesis and reformulation of foreign policy change |
| Other Title Information | Japan and East Asian financial regionalism |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Lee, Yong Wook |
| Publication | 2012. |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | What explains major foreign policy changes? Why and when does the state change its foreign policy? Despite the importance of foreign policy change, which can (re)shape the nature of a given state's international relations vis-à-vis other states and international systems, explanations of foreign policy change have received only sporadic attention in foreign policy analysis literature. Against this backdrop, I offer in this article a new framework designed to capture both motivational and processual aspects of foreign policy change. I develop the framework by critically examining and synthesising two recent systematic explorations of foreign policy change: one framework within the tradition of rationalism (broadly defined) - David Welch's Painful Choice: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change (2005) - and the other within constructivism - Jeffrey Legro's Rethinking the World: Great Power Strategies and International Order (2006). For the motivational analysis, I link the role of crisis-defining ideas to threat perception to sharpen prospect theory. I illustrate this reformulated synthesis with an example of Japan's policy shift toward East Asian financial regionalism. |
| `In' analytical Note | Review of International Studies Vol. 38, No.4; Oct 2012: p. 785-807 |
| Journal Source | Review of International Studies Vol. 38, No.4; Oct 2012: p. 785-807 |
| Key Words | Foreign Policy ; International Systems ; International Relations ; East Asian Financial Regionalism |