The article offers a wide-ranging view of the sub-discipline of Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA), trying to reflect the diversity which characterizes the practice and the research in the field. It also shows how FPA has being developing in Brazil. In the first section a brief evolution of the sub-discipline is traced. In the second section the links between the main theoretical International Relations (IR) approaches and FPA are shown. In the third section we review the uses of FPA instruments to analyze Brazilian Foreign Policy.
Foreign Policy Analysis; Brazilian Foreign Policy; decision-making process