Our PI @lesliewehner.bsky.social has recently published an article called 'Providing ontological security through analogies and metaphors: A leader approach' It explores the use of metaphors in ontological insecurity. Empirically it focuses on Nayib Bukele. Want to read more? Find the link below!

3/3: It has been an honor and pleasure to edit the journal for these past five years. Thanks, Lisbeth Aggestam, Brian Lai, A. Burcu Bayram, Danielle Chubb, Stephen Nemeth, Andrea Oelsner, and Leslie Wehner​.

2/3: and Associate Editors: A. Burcu Bayram, Ryan Beasley, Scarlett Cornelissen, Benjamin Day, Melisa Deciancio, and Kei Koga.

1/3: Starting January 1, 2026, the new FPA editorial team will start its 5-year term. Co-Editor-in-Chiefs: Leslie Wehner, Sibel Oktay, Baris Kesgin

Newly elected President 🇨🇱 José Antonio Kast…far right yes but not a populist leader #Chile #Kast #ElecionesChile @ideopop.bsky.social

📢New issue of #PAG21 is out!📢 In "The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy" @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social compare foreign policy changes in 🇨🇱 & 🇸🇪 pointing to the role of policy entrepreneurs and a favorable domestic context. Available #OpenAccess buff.ly/d2sgM4V

Our special issue (Issue 87) titled State of the Art in Foreign Policy Analysis, guest-edited by Binnur Özkeçeci-Taner @binnurot.bsky.social and Leslie Wehner @lesliewehner.bsky.social, has been published. www.ir-journal.com/issues/volum...

My chapter on “Regional powers and comparative regionalism” in the Handbook of International Relations edited by Cameron Thies has been published. A must have Handbook. Check the list of authors and you will see why it is a great contribution to the study of IR doi.org/10.4337/9781...

Happy to see my article that provides a new theory of gradual foreign policy change being featured and used to explain key trends in India’s Foreign Policy - published by @IndiasWorld_mag #India #ForeignPolicy #roletheory link here ⬇️ indiasworld.in/beyond-the-b...

In International Studies Perspectives (2025) Leslie Wehner explores Gradual Change in Foreign Policy | India's World

Leslie E. Wehner, in his article for International Studies Perspectives (May 2025) Gradual Change in Foreign Policy: A Role Theoretic Approach”, proposes a ...

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My new work on role theory and populist foreign policy in the new Routledge Handbook of Populism and Foreign Policy ⬇️ Also many more chapters to read written by leading scholars www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/1... @ideopop.bsky.social @sdestradi.bsky.social @davidcadier.bsky.social

🎉 A new publication! I develop a theory of incremental change in foreign policy using role theory. Illustrative examples: Mexico (leader role) & Sweden (neutral role) “Gradual Change in Foreign Policy: A Role-Theoretic Approach academic.oup.com/isp/article/...

Gradual Change in Foreign Policy: A Role-Theoretic Approach

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Finally out as online first - coauthored with @theseangarrett we explore the relationship policy and roles through the case of UK and Germany as faithfully allies of Ukraine. More details and link to the article in Sean’s thread ⬇️ @irjournal.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0047...

Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine - Sean Garrett, Leslie Wehner, 2025

This paper establishes the nexus of roles and policy from the perspective of foreign policy role theory. This relationship has been usually assumed but rarely u...

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New Publication Alert! Myself and @lesliewehner.bsky.social present our new paper: Policy, roles and domestic contestation: Germany and the United Kingdom as allies of Ukraine. Available in @irjournal.bsky.social. doi.org/10.1177/0047...

Part (summary) of my presentation on populist foreign policy few weeks ago at the University of York is used in this blog - it sounds lots like what we have been seeing this last week in the world - leaders matter! Read 👇

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@uoypolitics.bsky.social PhD student Victoria Frois Borrero has written a blog about the implications and challenges posed by the far right and populism in Europe and Latin America. You can read the whole blog here blogs.york.ac.uk/igdc/2025/04...

📣 Out on #FirstView 📣 In "The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy" @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social & @lesliewehner.bsky.social compare foreign policy changes in 🇨🇱 & 🇸🇪 pointing to the role of policy entrepreneurs and a favorable domestic context. polisky gendersky buff.ly/szfEivh

Finally out in Politics & Gender! Please read & share this work with @thomsonjennifer.bsky.social “The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden” doi.org/10.1017/S174... We study the conditions that made possible the formal adoption of a Feminist Foreign Policy 🇨🇱🇸🇪

@sibeloktay.bsky.social @lesliewehner.bsky.social and yours truly -along with a brilliant team of associate editors- are honored to assume our editorial duties of @fpajrnl.bsky.social by the end of 2025. very much looking forward to serving scholars, practitioners, and readers of foreign policy.

Happening now “Understanding foreign policy change: a role theoretical approach” with Anna Michalsky, @lesliewehner.bsky.social @cameronthies.bsky.social @sibeloktay.bsky.social Kai Oppermann, Stephan Klose & Damian Strycharz #ISA2025

Yay! a new accepted paper which is now forthcoming in the journal: International Relations. This is very special as it is with my doctoral student @theseangarrett.bsky.social His first article of many more to come for sure :-) For now only the abstract ⬇️