Using the concept of ‘context sensitivity’ as organizing theme, this article explores different avenues of advancing foreign policy analysis (FPA) scholarship based on insights from the global South. Since foreign policy decision-makers in the global South operate in (at times very) different political environments than their western counterparts, the applicability of FPA approaches cannot be taken as a given, which is why their context sensitivity (i.e., the extent to which core concepts and indicators contained in those approaches travel to non-western settings) needs to be explored. This article suggests that our understanding of the motives and behaviours of individual decision-makers can be advanced in three distinct ways based on insights from the global South. First, several of the FPA constructs that focus on individual decision makers have seen hardly any applications to non-western cases, which is why the latter contributes to ascertaining the analytical scope of those constructs. Second, taking more fully into account the differences in decision-making environments within which leaders from the global South operate can advance leader-oriented FPA approaches by helping to specify certain theoretical assumptions proposed by them. Finally, the aspiration to analyse leaders from the global South can advance FPA in terms of method by, for instance, developing non-English language coding schemes for profiling leaders based on speech acts that are cognizant of the specificities of individual languages, while at the same time allowing for measurement equivalence across different languages.

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通过研究来自全球南方的领导人来推进外交政策分析

本文以“情境敏感性”的概念为组织主题，根据来自全球南方的见解，探讨了推进外交政策分析 (FPA) 学术的不同途径。由于全球南方的外交政策决策者在（有时非常）不同于西方同行的政治环境中运作，因此不能将 FPA 方法的适用性视为给定的，这就是为什么他们的上下文敏感性（即，这些方法中包含的核心概念和指标（前往非西方环境）需要加以探索。本文表明，基于来自全球南方的见解，我们可以通过三种不同的方式推进我们对单个决策者的动机和行为的理解。第一的，一些专注于个人决策者的 FPA 结构几乎没有应用于非西方案例，这就是为什么后者有助于确定这些结构的分析范围。其次，更充分地考虑来自全球南方领导人的​​决策环境的差异，可以通过帮助指定他们提出的某些理论假设来推进以领导人为导向的 FPA 方法。最后，分析来自全球南方的领导人的愿望可以在方法方面推进 FPA，例如，开发非英语语言编码方案，以基于识别个别语言特性的言语行为来分析领导人，而在同时允许跨不同语言的测量等效性。