The tactics of foreign policy agenda-setting: Issue choice and the president’s weekly radio address

2013 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 74-88 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Meernik ◽  
Michael Ault
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Agenda

The Dynamics of Foreign Policy Agenda Setting

1998 ◽  
Vol 92 (1) ◽  
pp. 173-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Dan Wood ◽  
Jeffrey S. Peake
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Domestic Institutions ◽  
Media Attention ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Issue Attention ◽  
The Media

Theoretical and empirical work on public policy agenda setting has ignored foreign policy. We develop a theory of foreign policy agenda setting and test the implications using time-series vector autoregression and Box-Tiao (1975) impact assessment methods. We theorize an economy of attention to foreign policy issues driven by issue inertia, events external to U.S. domestic institutions, as well as systemic attention to particular issues. We also theorize that the economy of attention is affected by a law of scarcity and the rise and fall of events in competing issue areas. Using measures of presidential and media attention to the Soviet Union, Arab-Israeli conflict, and Bosnian conflict, we show that presidential and media attentions respond to issue inertia and exogenous events in both primary and competing issue areas. Media attention also affects presidential attention, but the president does not affect issue attention by the media.

scholarly journals A cooperação brasileira para a África: da diplomacia presidencial de Lula da Silva à diplomacia comercial de Dilma Rousseff/The Brazilian cooperation for Africa

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 342-370
Author(s):  
Alexandre César Cunha Leite ◽  
Thamirys Ferreira Cavalcante
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
A Priority ◽  
Brazilian History

Desde a última década tem se observado um movimento brasileiro em direção à África cada vez mais forte. Embora as relações do Brasil com a África remontem a própria história brasileira, só na última década é que o vizinho africano passou a ser prioridade na agenda da política externa brasileira. Muitos estudiosos afirmam que o ex-presidente Lula da Silva desempenhou um papel importante por trás do dinamismo observado nos anos recentes. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi analisar a política externa brasileira voltada para a África durante os governos Luís Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) e Dilma Rousseff (2011-2014), identificando suas continuidades e descontinuidades. Para identificar qual o teor e extensão das continuidades e descontinuidades entre os dois governos foi utilizado o modelo elaborado por Hermann (1990).Palavras-chave: Política externa. Brasil. África. Cooperação. Diplomacia.  Abstract: A growing movement from Brazil toward Africa has been observed in the last decade. Although Brazil's relations with Africa date back Brazilian history itself, only in the last decade is that the African neighbor became a priority in Brazil's foreign policy agenda. Many scholars claim former President Lula da Silva has played an important role in the dynamism observed in recent years. The objective of this study analyzes the Brazilian foreign policy towards Africa during the governments Luis Inácio Lula da Silva (2003-2010) and Dilma Rousseff (2011-2014), identifying its continuities and discontinuities. To identify the content and extent of the continuities and discontinuities between the two governments the model developed by Hermann (1990) served as the theoretical and methodological basis.Keywords: Foreign policy. Brazil. Africa. Cooperation. Diplomacy.

Policy agenda-setting studies

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christoffer Green-Pedersen ◽  
Peter B. Mortensen
Keyword(s):  
Agenda Setting ◽  
Policy Agenda

6. Obama and smart power 1

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph S. Nye
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Public Diplomacy ◽  
American Foreign Policy ◽  
Information Age ◽  
Military Force ◽  
Policy Agenda ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Smart Power ◽  
Power Resources

This chapter examines Barack Obama’s foreign policy agenda. The Obama administration referred to its foreign policy as ‘smart power’, which combines soft and hard power resources in different contexts. In sending additional troops to Afghanistan, his use of military force in support of a no-fly zone in Libya, and his use of sanctions against Iran, Obama showed that he was not afraid to use the hard components of smart power. The chapter first considers power in a global information age before discussing soft power in U.S. foreign policy. It then explains how public diplomacy came to be incorporated into American foreign policy and concludes by highlighting problems in wielding soft power.

Foreign Policy Agenda: Robert J. Dole

1985 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 21-23
Author(s):  
Robert J. Dole
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Agenda
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