Research on international relations of the Middle East (IRME) has suffered from a schism between International Relations (IR) theory and regional particularities. To address this, scholars have offered corrective accounts by adding domestic factors to IR structural approaches. Studies on IRME thus reflect the turn to decision-making and domestic politics that has recently occurred. This article develops a critical analysis of the domestic politics orientation in IRME. We argue that this scholarship ignores work in foreign policy analysis (FPA) with its psychological-oriented and agent-based dimensions and that this constitutes a missed opportunity for the study of the region. The article offers suggestions for incorporating FPA research into IRME and argues that an FPA perspective offers an alternative and complementary approach to the eclectic frameworks predominant in the scholarship on IRME.

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中东的国际关系：理论方法中的外交政策分析

中东国际关系 (IRME) 研究因国际关系 (IR) 理论与地区特殊性而出现分裂。为了解决这个问题，学者们通过在 IR 结构方法中添加国内因素来提供更正说明。因此，对 IRME 的研究反映了最近发生的对决策和国内政治的转向。本文对 IRME 中的国内政治取向进行了批判性分析。我们认为，该奖学金忽视了外交政策分析 (FPA) 中以心理为导向和基于代理的维度的工作，这构成了研究该地区的错失机会。