Foreign Policy & Role Network

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. 🧵

🚨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. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/or…

🚨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. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/or…

🚨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. doi.org/10.1093/fpa/or…

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 journals-sagepub-com.eux.idm.oclc.org/doi/10.1177/13…

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. dergipark.org.tr/en/download/ar… @FPA_Research @cfppr @uikonseyi @baris_kesgin @OzgurOzdamar Here is a short synopsis:

⏰ 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: isanet.org/Programs/Award…

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 ⬇️ doi.org/10.33458/uider…

🎉 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” academic.oup.com/isp/article/do…

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 theconversation.com/why-keir-starm…

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. rusi.org/explore-our-re…

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

@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.

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

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

🗓️"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 👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/inaugural-le… Everyone welcome! 😃

Congratulations!! 👏🏼

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🚨 📣 Fully funded PhD alert. If you are interested in pursuing a PhD and researching populism, here is a great opportunity. You'd be working with @LeslieWehner at the University of Bath. bath.ac.uk/jobs/CH12326