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This chapter offers a thorough analysis of the study of foreign policy from an ideational International Relations (IR) perspective. In drawing from a political and social psychological perspective, this chapter studies the linkage between the two core elements of the research—perception and foreign policy. Here, it is understood that the way foreign policies are decided relies heavily on the way the reality of the situation is contextualised. In doing so, the chapter investigates the rationality involved in foreign policy decision-making and thereby, studies the way perceptions serve both as a factor and as a source in the formulation of a state’s foreign policy.

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Jash, A. (2023). The Psychology of Foreign Policy. In: China's Japan Policy: Learning from the Past. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-44817-1_2

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