Foreign Policy: A Theoretical Framework

This paper will discuss foreign policy as a theoretical framework. Many scholars are engaged in the analysis of foreign policy. Our scope is not to trace the entire history of foreign policy analysis. Rather, we wish to concentrate on the work of those who have attempted to construct frameworks designed to yield social scientific insight into the sources and processes of foreign policy. Most of the frameworks of analysis to be discussed tend to fall within the bounds of three major categories of approaches: the decision-making approach, the system analysis approach, and the source analysis approac