Na RBPI 1/2013 - Análise de Política Externa e Política Externa Brasileira
Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) is an extremely rich and dynamic subfield of International Relations (IR), as shown by the growing number of specialized publications, university courses and specific FPA sections within IR’s main academic associations. This is also the case in Brazil, where the subfield is perhaps the strongest area in the IR field.
The article Foreign Policy Analysis and Brazilian Foreign Policy: evolution, challenges and possibilities of an academic field provides an overview of FPA to the Brazilian and non-Brazilian audiences of IR scholars, by first summarizing FPA historical development and specificities in the vast area of IR, as well as showing its connections with the main IR theoretical perspectives; and second, by providing a brief panorama of Brazilian FPA studies, highlighting the approaches most used by the Brazilian IR/FPA community thus far.
FPA’s specificity lies in its unit-level focus. Although states represented by their central governments have been traditionally taken as the units of analysis, FPA analytical tools have nowadays been increasingly applied to actors located in other governmental areas, either on the subnational or supranational level. Moreover, given that foreign policy is also a public policy, FPA connections with public policy analysis and its conceptual framework are not only necessary, but also unavoidable.
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