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Leslie Wehner
@lesliewehner.bsky.social
Professor of International Relations, University of Bath. Populism & Foreign Policy, Rising Powers - BRICS, Leaders & Leadership in Foreign Policy, The US, Latin America, Chile 🇨🇱

https://researchportal.bath.ac.uk/en/persons/leslie-wehner
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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​.
December 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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2/3: and Associate Editors: A. Burcu Bayram, Ryan Beasley, Scarlett Cornelissen, Benjamin Day, Melisa Deciancio, and Kei Koga.
December 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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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
December 22, 2025 at 9:34 PM
Newly elected President 🇨🇱 José Antonio Kast…far right yes but not a populist leader #Chile #Kast #ElecionesChile @ideopop.bsky.social
December 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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📢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

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November 21, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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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.

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September 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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...
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July 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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 ⬇️

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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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June 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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
June 11, 2025 at 9:42 AM
🎉 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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May 20, 2025 at 9:04 AM
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

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April 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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 👇
@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...
The Far-Right and Populism in Europe and Latin America – Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre
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April 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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📣 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.

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March 31, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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 🇨🇱🇸🇪
The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden | Politics & Gender | Cambridge Core
The Adoption of Feminist Foreign Policy: The Cases of Chile and Sweden
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March 21, 2025 at 11:47 AM
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@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.
March 4, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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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
March 4, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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 ⬇️
February 13, 2025 at 12:52 PM