Perspectives on International Politics I

Abstract

This panel, overall, deals with the recent changes and developments in international politics. Three of the papers on this panel are on US politics while one focuses on the Polish foreign and security policy. The paper to be presented by Mrs. Sus will elucidate the extent of change in Polish foreign and security policy after 2015 and the effects of this change on the European Union by using the conceptual framework devised by Charles Hermann, who described four sources of change in foreign policy; leader driver, bureaucratic advocacy, domestic restructuring and external shock. The presentation to be made by Mr. Školnik and Haman will focus on how the USA is perceived in Latin America during Trump era. The authors will use public opinion polls, descriptive tables, regression models and theoretical arguments to unveil the image that the USA projects in Latin America after Trump was elected the US president. Mrs. Jakštaitė’s paper will discuss the changes and continuities that Trump’s election have brought about in translatlantic relations. The paper will seek to evaluate the extent of change in the US policy during Trump’s presidency towards its European allies with the help of qualitative research methods, including analysis of documents, discourse analysis and interpretive problem analysis. Mr. Harrasser, on the other hand, will assess the characteristics of U.S. humanitarian intervention policy. His paper will explore how four sets of intitutional players – the president, the congress, the UN Security Council and the bureaucratic politics - interact with each other in a two-level game; domestic and international levels and how this interaction affects humanitarian intervention decisions.