Christopher Hill is Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations and Director, and former Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Cambridge, UK.

Reviews of 1st edition: '[C]omprehensive and incisive...exceptionally readable, detailed and articulate...a must-read for any student of International Relations who wants to understand the main forces and processes behind contemporary foreign policy.' - Yossi Mekelberg, International Affairs '[J]udicious and acute... a deeply pondered and heartfelt work. As a primer, for the fogged student or the fuddled functionary of state, it is unsurpassed.' - Alex Danchev, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Should be required reading... a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of [Foreign Policy Analysis]... that would be worth assigning both in general seminars and those devoted more directly towards comparative foreign policy.' - Patrick James, Perspectives on Politics '[W]ill be the definitive account of the subject for many years to come.' - Professor Saki Dockrill, Journal of Transatlantic Studies

• 1. Foreign Policy in International Relations2. The Politics of Foreign policy3. The Actors: Taking Responsibility4. Agents: Bureaucracy and the Proliferation of External Relations5. Rationality in Foreign Policy6. Implementation: Foreign Policy Practice and the Texture of Power7. Foreign Policy in a multi-actor world8. Transnational Reformulations9. The Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy10. Politics, Society and Foreign Policy11. Foreign Policy and the Revival of The State.

Christopher Hill is Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations and Director, and former Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Cambridge, UK.

Reviews of 1st edition: '[C]omprehensive and incisive...exceptionally readable, detailed and articulate...a must-read for any student of International Relations who wants to understand the main forces and processes behind contemporary foreign policy.' - Yossi Mekelberg, International Affairs '[J]udicious and acute... a deeply pondered and heartfelt work. As a primer, for the fogged student or the fuddled functionary of state, it is unsurpassed.' - Alex Danchev, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Should be required reading... a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of [Foreign Policy Analysis]... that would be worth assigning both in general seminars and those devoted more directly towards comparative foreign policy.' - Patrick James, Perspectives on Politics '[W]ill be the definitive account of the subject for many years to come.' - Professor Saki Dockrill, Journal of Transatlantic Studies

• 1. Foreign Policy in International Relations2. The Politics of Foreign policy3. The Actors: Taking Responsibility4. Agents: Bureaucracy and the Proliferation of External Relations5. Rationality in Foreign Policy6. Implementation: Foreign Policy Practice and the Texture of Power7. Foreign Policy in a multi-actor world8. Transnational Reformulations9. The Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy10. Politics, Society and Foreign Policy11. Foreign Policy and the Revival of The State.

Christopher Hill is Sir Patrick Sheehy Professor of International Relations and Director, and former Head of the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Cambridge, UK.

Reviews of 1st edition: '[C]omprehensive and incisive...exceptionally readable, detailed and articulate...a must-read for any student of International Relations who wants to understand the main forces and processes behind contemporary foreign policy.' - Yossi Mekelberg, International Affairs '[J]udicious and acute... a deeply pondered and heartfelt work. As a primer, for the fogged student or the fuddled functionary of state, it is unsurpassed.' - Alex Danchev, Times Higher Education Supplement 'Should be required reading... a rigorous and comprehensive assessment of [Foreign Policy Analysis]... that would be worth assigning both in general seminars and those devoted more directly towards comparative foreign policy.' - Patrick James, Perspectives on Politics '[W]ill be the definitive account of the subject for many years to come.' - Professor Saki Dockrill, Journal of Transatlantic Studies

• 1. Foreign Policy in International Relations2. The Politics of Foreign policy3. The Actors: Taking Responsibility4. Agents: Bureaucracy and the Proliferation of External Relations5. Rationality in Foreign Policy6. Implementation: Foreign Policy Practice and the Texture of Power7. Foreign Policy in a multi-actor world8. Transnational Reformulations9. The Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy10. Politics, Society and Foreign Policy11. Foreign Policy and the Revival of The State.