7 The network approach and foreign policy
Abstract
Chapter 7, by Christopher Ansell and Jacob Torfing, introduces the Network Approach. This chapter first defines the network concept, sets out the core features of the network approach and explains how and why it has emerged as an alternative lens for understanding policy-making in dispersed and interactive settings that defy description in terms of the traditional hierarchy–market dichotomy. It then compares different theories and methods for understanding policy and governance networks and discusses how these networks can be instrumental for enhancing knowledge sharing, improving inter-organizational and cross-sector coordination, and solving wicked and unruly problems in ways that both increase effectiveness and democratic legitimacy. Subsequently, the chapter describes how and why the network approach is applicable to foreign policy-making and assesses the scope conditions and merits and limits of applying the approach. It argues that the network approach is useful for analyzing how states formulate, implement, and diffuse foreign policy in response to domestic interests and global problems and events. Finally, the chapter provides a more extended example of how the network approach is applicable to core concerns of foreign policy. The example illustrates the role of networks in facilitating political cooperation to prevent nuclear proliferation.
Abstract
Chapter 7, by Christopher Ansell and Jacob Torfing, introduces the Network Approach. This chapter first defines the network concept, sets out the core features of the network approach and explains how and why it has emerged as an alternative lens for understanding policy-making in dispersed and interactive settings that defy description in terms of the traditional hierarchy–market dichotomy. It then compares different theories and methods for understanding policy and governance networks and discusses how these networks can be instrumental for enhancing knowledge sharing, improving inter-organizational and cross-sector coordination, and solving wicked and unruly problems in ways that both increase effectiveness and democratic legitimacy. Subsequently, the chapter describes how and why the network approach is applicable to foreign policy-making and assesses the scope conditions and merits and limits of applying the approach. It argues that the network approach is useful for analyzing how states formulate, implement, and diffuse foreign policy in response to domestic interests and global problems and events. Finally, the chapter provides a more extended example of how the network approach is applicable to core concerns of foreign policy. The example illustrates the role of networks in facilitating political cooperation to prevent nuclear proliferation.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- List of tables ix
- Notes on contributors x
- List of abbreviations xvi
- 1 Introduction 1
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Part I Actor-centered perspectives
- 2 The multiple streams approach in foreign policy 21
- 3 Punctuated equilibrium theory and foreign policy 41
- 4 Foreign policy applications of the advocacy coalition framework 65
- 5 Veto player approaches in public policy and foreign policy 91
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Part II Structural perspectives
- 6 New institutionalism and foreign policy 117
- 7 The network approach and foreign policy 139
- 8 Policy diffusion and transfer meet foreign policy 171
- 9 Policy learning in public policy studies 194
- 10 Conclusion 218
- Index 232
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of figures vii
- List of tables ix
- Notes on contributors x
- List of abbreviations xvi
- 1 Introduction 1
-
Part I Actor-centered perspectives
- 2 The multiple streams approach in foreign policy 21
- 3 Punctuated equilibrium theory and foreign policy 41
- 4 Foreign policy applications of the advocacy coalition framework 65
- 5 Veto player approaches in public policy and foreign policy 91
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Part II Structural perspectives
- 6 New institutionalism and foreign policy 117
- 7 The network approach and foreign policy 139
- 8 Policy diffusion and transfer meet foreign policy 171
- 9 Policy learning in public policy studies 194
- 10 Conclusion 218
- Index 232
