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Focusdata: Foreign Policy through Language and Sentiment Research output
In this article Fisher, Klein & Codjo introduce the FOCUSdate Project and they show how the sentiment data provide unique abilities to analyze Russia's and Iran's reactions to US policies and events and NGO human rights campaigns.

Crisis and change in European Union foreign policy Research output
How do crises produce changes in specific European Union foreign policy areas, and how should we conceptualise these policy changes?

An analytical framework for postmortems of European foreign policy: should decision-makers have been surprised? Research output
This paper develops a novel theoretical framework for the conduct of postmortems after major foreign policy surprises for the European Union and its member states.

Opening the Black Box: The Making of India’s Foreign Policy Research output
How is Indian foreign policy made? This special issue of the journal India Review, edited by political scientists Nicolas Blarel (Leiden University) and Avinash Paliwal (SOAS University of London) features a number of interesting case studies that bridge the gap between Foreign Policy Analysis and India’s…

Estimative Intelligence in European Foreign Policymaking: Learning Lessons from an Era of Surprise Research output
This book is the first comparative study of estimative intelligence and strategic surprise in a European context, complementing and testing insights from previous studies centred on the United States. It does extensive empirical analysis of open-source material and interviews in relation to three cases…

Thomas, The Return of Intergovernmentalism? Research output
Citizens, journalists and scholars notice that foreign policy in, and of, the European Union, is ‘de-Europeanising’. Political scientist Daniel Thomas (Leiden University) offers a theoretical exploration of the likely implications. He expects that it will become more difficult for the EU to achieve…