Foreign Policy Change Under Authoritarian Leaders: Analysis of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era
The growing study of foreign policy change offers various explanations of change and continuity in foreign policy. By focusing on the actors of foreign policy decision-making, past scholarship has mainly concentrated on the role of institutional and noninstitutional factors in foreign policy change...
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The growing study of foreign policy change offers various explanations of change and continuity in foreign policy. By focusing on the actors of foreign policy decision-making, past scholarship has mainly concentrated on the role of institutional and noninstitutional factors in foreign policy change. However, decentralized decision-making is more relevant to democratic regimes than authoritarian regimes. Despite the abundance of case studies on foreign policy making in nondemocracies, advancements in the conceptual understanding of foreign policy change in authoritarian regimes are still needed. Addressing Uzbekistan’s foreign policy, this article proposes an advanced framework to explain why and how foreign policy change takes place under authoritarian leaders. A leader’s perception of the external environment is argued to be a decisive factor inducing authoritarian leaders to (re)consider their regime survival strategy. Concern with regime survival, in turn, shapes foreign policy goals which are manifested in distinctive foreign policy behavior of a leader. Ultimately, the behavior of a leader translates into certain foreign policy outcomes.
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| spelling | doaj-art-a01f50a1d6f84657b235a9b2cf2892f62025-01-20T18:24:09ZlitVilnius University PressPolitologija1392-16812424-60342023-11-01111310.15388/Polit.2023.111.4Foreign Policy Change Under Authoritarian Leaders: Analysis of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War EraFeruza Madaminova0International University of Japan The growing study of foreign policy change offers various explanations of change and continuity in foreign policy. By focusing on the actors of foreign policy decision-making, past scholarship has mainly concentrated on the role of institutional and noninstitutional factors in foreign policy change. However, decentralized decision-making is more relevant to democratic regimes than authoritarian regimes. Despite the abundance of case studies on foreign policy making in nondemocracies, advancements in the conceptual understanding of foreign policy change in authoritarian regimes are still needed. Addressing Uzbekistan’s foreign policy, this article proposes an advanced framework to explain why and how foreign policy change takes place under authoritarian leaders. A leader’s perception of the external environment is argued to be a decisive factor inducing authoritarian leaders to (re)consider their regime survival strategy. Concern with regime survival, in turn, shapes foreign policy goals which are manifested in distinctive foreign policy behavior of a leader. Ultimately, the behavior of a leader translates into certain foreign policy outcomes. https://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/32382Foreign policy changeleadership trait analysisperceptionsleadership styleauthoritarian leaderUzbekistan |
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| title | Foreign Policy Change Under Authoritarian Leaders: Analysis of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era |
| title_full | Foreign Policy Change Under Authoritarian Leaders: Analysis of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Foreign Policy Change Under Authoritarian Leaders: Analysis of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era |
| title_short | Foreign Policy Change Under Authoritarian Leaders: Analysis of Uzbekistan’s Foreign Policy in the Post-Cold War Era |
| title_sort | foreign policy change under authoritarian leaders analysis of uzbekistan s foreign policy in the post cold war era |
| topic | Foreign policy change leadership trait analysis perceptions leadership style authoritarian leader Uzbekistan |
| url | https://www.journals.vu.lt/politologija/article/view/32382 |
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