Foreign Policy & Role Network

A foreign policy analysis and role research network @CeSeRedinburgh @EdinburghPIR to link and promote scholarship around the world.

[Foreign Policy Analysis @ ISA @FPA_ISA]

FPA people, we have a LinkedIn page!
Follow us for section news, calls, awards, events, and updates from the wider FPA community. Got a new article, book, workshop, job, CFP, panel, or teaching resource? Tag us, and we’ll repost relevant FPA news.https://t.co/4NRP4cVGA2

[Foreign Policy Analysis @ ISA @FPA_ISA]

📢 Don't miss the upcoming @isanet FPA Section award deadlines!
15 July:
🏆 Emerging Scholar Award
📄 Alexander George Best Paper Award

31 July:
🔍 Margaret Hermann Award
📚 Best Book in Foreign Policy Analysis Award
Details: https://t.co/hQmxGj8xdA

[Foreign Policy Analysis @ ISA @FPA_ISA]

The 2026 ISA Annual Convention in Columbus is just a few weeks away. Time to celebrate some great scholarship. 🎉

We are excited to announce the 2026 FPA Section Award winners and highlight a few events you will not want to miss. 🧵

[Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) Journal @FPA_Jrnl]

🚨OUT NOW🚨 Musgrave (2026) explains why subnational governments use education policy for adversarial paradiplomacy, from San Francisco's treatment of Japanese students in the early 1900s to public opinion on Florida's restrictions on Chinese researchers.
https://t.co/Q1RneIFCbP

[Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) Journal @FPA_Jrnl]

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
Fujita, Atarashi and Yukawa (2026) explain variation in disaster relief aid, arguing states provide more aid to those crucial to corporate supply chain interests, drawing on emergency events and response datasets, and cases from East Asia.
https://t.co/GGjIff3ele

[Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) Journal @FPA_Jrnl]

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨
Valockova (2026) uses prospect theory to show how and when business elite perceptions influence state foreign economic hedging, drawing on Germany's economic policies towards China between 2014 and 2021.

https://t.co/WltxEJArAK

[Consuelo Thiers Huerta @Consuelothiers]

New paper out with Benjamin Martill & AlanConvery in @BritJPIR We used Leadership Trait Analysis on UK PM Keir Starmer. Turns out he's much tougher than the "cautious technocrat" image suggests🧵 @EdinburghPIR
https://t.co/UTM0aIPuoU

[Culture-Foreign Policy Project @cul_forpol]

Our project's first article has just been published 🎉. It compares foreign policy roles expressed in President Obama's and President Trump's UNGA Speeches. https://t.co/oHLcKIG8aQ @FPA_Research @cfppr @uikonseyi @baris_kesgin @OzgurOzdamar
Here is a short synopsis:

[Foreign Policy Analysis @ ISA @FPA_ISA]

⏰ Last call: FPA Section travel grants for #ISA2026 (Columbus) — two awards of $750. Priority: grad students, Global South scholars, and those with limited institutional support. Send CV + motivation letter by 1 Oct 2025. Details: https://t.co/X18aEbhyeD

[Leslie Wehner @LeslieWehner]

A brief stop from holidays in Chile with the family to promote the introductory article of the special issue coedited by @BinnurOT and myself “The State of the Art in Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA)” @uidergisi link ⬇️

https://t.co/dEA3sBhgWh

[Leslie Wehner @LeslieWehner]

🎉 A new publication! I develop a theory of incremental change in foreign policy using a role approach. 2 illustrative examples: Mexico & Sweden. “Gradual Change in Foreign Policy: A Role-Theoretic Approach” https://t.co/XnwHcjo7zl

[Consuelo Thiers Huerta @Consuelothiers]

My latest on ⁦@ConversationUK⁩ : Keir Starmer’s mindset is unlike other PMs — and that could matter when facing Trump. 🧠 A political psychology perspective ⁦@EdinburghPIR⁩ #PoliticalPsychology #Starmer #Trump #leaders https://t.co/gr3TSZrWiB

[RUSI @RUSI_org]

Amid rising geopolitical tensions and the resurgence of personalist rule, how essential is it to recenter leaders in strategic analysis? @Consuelothiers explores this question further in the latest #RUSICommentary.
https://t.co/WFs8bFFh19

[Foreign Policy & Role Network @FPA_Research]

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[Consuelo Thiers Huerta @Consuelothiers]

The profits of personality: advancing the fourth ‘I’ in international political economy research by ⁦@JKaarbo⁩ and Julia Calvert 👏🏼 https://t.co/oJ3idLJbTi

[Foreign Policy Analysis @ ISA @FPA_ISA]

Our favorite conference, #ISA2025, is over, but here are a few pictures highlighting some key moments from our section.

[Barı​ş Kesgin @baris_kesgin]

@SibelOktay @LeslieWehner
and yours truly -along with a brilliant team of associate editors- are honored to assume our editorial duties of
@FPA_Jrnl by the end of 2025. we are excited! very much looking forward to serving scholars, practitioners, and readers of foreign policy.

[Foreign Policy Analysis @ ISA @FPA_ISA]

Dear FPA section members, remember we have our business meeting today (Tuesday 4) at 12:30. Make sure to come! #ISA2025 #FPA

[Consuelo Thiers Huerta @Consuelothiers]

Tomorrow, we will have a great panel on leaders and foreign policy. Stephan Fouquet and I will present our work on Milei and foreign policy bureaucracies. If you are interested in the latest research on this topic, make sure to come! @EdinburghPIR #ISA2025 @FPA_ISA

[Citizen Participation - [email protected] @OliverEscobar]

🗓️"Democracy as if the future mattered: Can democratic innovation change the world?"

Delighted to invite you to my inaugural lecture at the University of Edinburgh this spring ☀️

Information and registration 👉 https://t.co/IgXgs6AVuf

Everyone welcome! 😃

[Foreign Policy & Role Network @FPA_Research]

Congratulations!! 👏🏼

[Foreign Policy Analysis @ ISA @FPA_ISA]

📢🥁The envelope, please… 🏆✨
The winners of the Foreign Policy section awards are 2024-25:
🏆 Alexander George Award: Ryan Yu-Lin Liou
🏆 Distinguished Scholar Award: Dursun Peksen
🏆 Best Book in Foreign Policy: Elizabeth N. Saunders
Congratulations! #ISA2025