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Sibel Oktay Leslie Wehner and yours truly -along with a brilliant team of associate editors- are honored to assume our editorial duties of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) Journal by the end of 2025. we are excited! very much looking forward to serving scholars, practitioners, and readers of foreign policy.

🚨 New article🚨 How do superpowers shape foreign policy decision-making in conflicts? Walker & Malici’s 2025 study applies Binary Role Theory to analyze U.S.-Russia interactions leading up to and following the 2022 invasion of Ukraine. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/21…

#OpenAccess from Politics & Gender - The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden - cup.org/4kIQdfo - Jennifer Thomson & Leslie Wehner #FirstView

Visceral reactions play a role in foreign policy decision-making. Houghton & Mendez’s 2023 study uses somatic marker theory to examine how internal sensations influenced key U.S. decisions from McKinley to Rice. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/19…

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy" Jennifer Thomson & Leslie Wehner compare foreign policy changes in 🇨🇱 & 🇸🇪 pointing to the role of policy entrepreneurs and a favorable domestic context. buff.ly/VvWhjQo

This new article online first is part of the special issue “The State of the Art in Foreign Policy Analysis” that Binnur and myself are co-editing- please read and share ⬇️

🚨 It’s time to put political psychology back at the center of global analysis. New commentary out today with RUSI: "Bringing the Leader Back In: The Case for Political Psychology in International Affairs" Understanding who leads matters more than ever P&IR Edinburgh

Finally out as online first - coauthored with Sean Garrett @theseangarrett.bsky.social we explore the relationship policy and roles through the case of UK and Germany as faithfully allies of Ukraine. More details and link to the article in Sean’s thread ⬇️ International Relations @irjournal.bsky.social

⬇️ a new online-first paper of the forthcoming special issue International Relations / Uluslararası İlişkiler “State of the Art in Foreign Policy” coedited by Binnur and me. This article of Consuelo Thiers Huerta studies the role of leaders in the foreign policy of Latin American countries. Free access

See ⬇️ Another online first article of the special issue Binnur and myself are coediting - read this article on Middle Eastern Leaders written by Sercan Canbolat a leading scholar on the study of leaders and Operational Codes International Relations / Uluslararası İlişkiler

See ⬇️ article no6 of the special issue State of the Art in FPA coedited by Binnur and me is now available online first: “Emotion Norms & Int'l Securitization in FPA: The Official Russian Narratives on the Ukrainian-Russian War" by MG Kosen& SG Gezer.

🚨 New article🚨 Fritzler, Grøn, and Wivel (2025) show that these states shape international norms through processual leadership, especially by enabling deliberative spaces around the R2P. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/21…

🎉 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…

Happy to see my article that provides a new theory of gradual foreign policy change being featured and used to explain key trends in India’s Foreign Policy - published by India's World #India #ForeignPolicy #roletheory link here ⬇️ indiasworld.in/beyond-the-bre…

See below! A new article of the special issue that Binnur are coediting is now out and available online International Relations / Uluslararası İlişkiler see ⬇️

Gloria (2025) shows that Duterte's foreign policy pivot toward China and away from the U.S. was shaped by a populist discourse of national victimhood, framing the Philippines as historically wronged and insecure in a shifting global order. academic.oup.com/fpa/article-ab…

My chapter on “Regional powers and comparative regionalism” in the new Handbook of International Relations has been published Cameron Thies A must have Handbook. Check the list of authors and you will see why it is a great contribution to the study of IR doi.org/10.4337/978178…

🚨NEW ARTICLE🚨 Attia (2025) shows that U.S. presidents with strong party support and high approval are more likely to lift sanctions, while congressional oversight makes termination less likely and slower. academic.oup.com/fpa/article/21…

The 8th article from International Relations / Uluslararası İlişkiler 's special issue ("State of the Art in FPA"), co-edited by Leslie Wehner and me, is now available! "A Different Approach on Analyzing Countries’ Grand Strategies: China and the United States" by Çağla Kılıç. ir-journal.com/online-first/r…

Article no 8 of the special issue Binnur and myself are editing is now available online: “A Different Approach on Analyzing Countries’ Grand Strategies: China and the United States” by Çağla Kılıç. International Relations / Uluslararası İlişkiler Binnur link ⬇️