Leslie Wehner

Research article titled "The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden" by Jennifer Thomson and Leslie Wehner.

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢

In "The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy" @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social compare foreign policy changes in 🇨🇱 & 🇸🇪 pointing to the role of policy entrepreneurs and a favorable domestic context.

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Our special issue (Issue 87) titled State of the Art in Foreign Policy Analysis, guest-edited by Binnur Özkeçeci-Taner @binnurot.bsky.social and Leslie Wehner @lesliewehner.bsky.social, has been published.

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Congrats, Jelena! 👏👏👏

My chapter on “Regional powers and comparative regionalism” in the Handbook of International Relations edited by Cameron Thies has been published. 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/10.4337/9781...

In International Studies Perspectives (2025) Leslie Wehner explores Gradual Change in Foreign Policy | India's World Leslie E. Wehner, in his article for International Studies Perspectives (May 2025) Gradual Change in Foreign Policy: A Role Theoretic Approach”, proposes a ...

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 @IndiasWorld_mag
#India #ForeignPolicy #roletheory link here ⬇️

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My new work on role theory and populist foreign policy in the new Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy ⬇️ Also many more chapters to read written by leading scholars www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1... @ideopop.bsky.social @sdestradi.bsky.social @davidcadier.bsky.social

Gradual Change in Foreign Policy: A Role-Theoretic Approach

🎉 A new publication! I develop a theory of incremental change in foreign policy using role theory. Illustrative examples: Mexico (leader role) & Sweden (neutral role) “Gradual Change in Foreign Policy: A Role-Theoretic Approach academic.oup.com/isp/article/...

Finally out as online first - coauthored with @theseangarrett 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 ⬇️ @irjournal.bsky.social

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Part (summary) of my presentation on populist foreign policy few weeks ago at the University of York is used in this blog - it sounds lots like what we have been seeing this last week in the world - leaders matter! Read 👇

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In "The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy" @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social compare foreign policy changes in 🇨🇱 & 🇸🇪 pointing to the role of policy entrepreneurs and a favorable domestic context.

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Finally out in Politics & Gender! Please read & share this work with @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social

“The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden” doi.org/10.1017/S174...

We study the conditions that made possible the formal adoption of a Feminist Foreign Policy 🇨🇱🇸🇪

@sibeloktay.bsky.social @lesliewehner.bsky.social and yours truly -along with a brilliant team of associate editors- are honored to assume our editorial duties of @fpajrnl.bsky.social by the end of 2025. very much looking forward to serving scholars, practitioners, and readers of foreign policy.

Happening now “Understanding foreign policy change: a role theoretical approach” with Anna Michalsky, @lesliewehner.bsky.social @cameronthies.bsky.social @sibeloktay.bsky.social Kai Oppermann, Stephan Klose & Damian Strycharz #ISA2025

Yay! a new accepted paper which is now forthcoming in the journal: International Relations. This is very special as it is with my doctoral student @theseangarrett.bsky.social His first article of many more to come for sure :-) For now only the abstract ⬇️