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The connections between public opinion and foreign policy options of states is, among other factors, most extensively researched but is not clearly understood. These linkages become even more complicated when the focus is on emerging, developing states with their underdeveloped public accountability institutions and opinion survey infrastructure. In this paper, I investigate the nexus between American public opinion research practices and their extension to emerging powers to study foreign policy. I suggest that the theoretical approaches most useful to support this alternative combination of analytic tools are foreign policy analysis (FPA) and domestic constructivism. Together, they generate valid and reliable empirical findings. I measure this nexus through sequential, mixed-method research with a case study of India. I use discourse analysis to capture mass values as the first research tool, and use a large-n survey to assess the public?s opinion on foreign policy in the second phase. The findings show clear and significant correlations between mass values and public opinion and India?s foreign policy options. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The proposed paper will attempt to study an intuitively obvious but long neglected role of identity in power transition in international politics. It refines and tests the claim that the level of identity formation in international politics determines the amount of violence (Adler 2001) and extent to which certain actions of states are interpreted as friendly, inimical, or rival in the system (Wendt 1999). Such varying levels of identity between rising and hegemonic states during power transitions determine the level of agreement between them over the nature and the extent of revisionism of the international system under given conditions. Thus, a dyad made up of rising and hegemonic states with high levels of mutually shared positive identity will react to power transition in a pacific manner. In contrast to such fairly high pacific case of power transition, dyads that possess fairly low levels of mutually shared positive identity are more likely to adopt adversarial strategies toward each other in international politics. The proposed paper will include a dataset about types of behavior of rising states from different regions of the world. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The proposed research treats the concept of national security as a product of social norms, ethnic identities, and culture of India that either supply constituent material for national identity or affect its external behaviour in significant ways. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]