ABSTRACT
According to Hudson, foreign policy is “a strategy or approach chosen by the national government to achieve its goals in its relations with external entities”. Hudson defines the foreign policy analysis (FPA) as “the subfield of IR that seeks to explain foreign policy, or, alternatively, foreign policy behavior, with reference to the theoretical ground of human decision-makers, acting singly or in-group”. The single most important contribution of foreign policy analysis to IR theory is to identify the point of theoretical intersection between the primary determinants of state behavior: material and ideational factors. Neoliberal or communist hegemony is intended to make global states modify ideological and political mentality, behavior and even views into funders’ strategic objectives. For centuries, there has been a mixed record of prognostication about values and interests of an antagonistic partner, zero-sum game, and the calculation of power and interests in a foreign policy.
