Dr Ryan Beasley

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2992

Email

rb68@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Research areas

I am a political psychologist and foreign policy theorist.  My research is primarily interested in decision-making processes, with particular emphasis on motivated reasoning and small group dynamics. I have also done work on public perceptions, US foreign policy, and role theory in international relations.

PhD supervision

• Wei Luo

Selected publications

• Open access

  Time on their minds: narrative reasoning and leaders’ construction of temporality in foreign policy

  Beasley, R., 25 Jun 2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Review of International Studies. FirstView, p. 1-21 21 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Foreign policy analysis and critical international relations

  Beasley, R. K., Donnelly, F. & Hom, A., 1 Feb 2024, Oxford handbook of foreign policy analysis. Kaarbo, J. & Thies, C. G. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 154-171

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Open access

  Timing bombs and the temporal dynamics of Iranian nuclear security

  Beasley, R. K. & Mehvar, A., 29 Apr 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: European Journal of International Security. FirstView, 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  What if? Counterfactual Trump and the western response to the war in Ukraine

  Kaarbo, J., Oppermann, K. & Beasley, R. K., 6 Mar 2023, In: International Affairs. 99, 2, p. 605-624 20 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• STAGES in Security: Volume 1

  Beasley, R., Donnelly, F., Hom, A. R., Kaarbo, J., Neal, A. W. & Solomon, T., 15 Sept 2022, In: Contemporary Voices: The St Andrews Journal of International Relations. 1, 1, p. 2-232 231 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Special issue › peer-review

• Setting the STAGES: Introduction to the Special Issue

  Beasley, R., Donnelly, F., Hom, A. R., Kaarbo, J., Neal, A. W. & Solomon, T., 15 Sept 2022, In: Contemporary Voices: The St Andrews Journal of International Relations. 1, 1, p. 2-4 3 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review

• What an analysis of Sunak’s personality could mean for UK policy

  Kaarbo, J., Thiers, C. & Beasley, R. K., 14 Nov 2022, LSE British Politics and Policy.

  Research output: Other contribution

• Open access

  Constructing time in foreign policy-making: Brexit's timing entrepreneurs, malcontemps and apparatchiks

  Hom, A. & Beasley, R. K., 8 Mar 2021, In: International Affairs. 97, 2, p. 267-285 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Foreign policy in the fourth dimension (FP4D): locating time in decision-making

  Beasley, R. K. & Hom, A., 1 Apr 2021, In: Foreign Policy Analysis. 17, 2, 20 p., oraa028.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Role theory, foreign policy, and the social construction of sovereignty: Brexit stage right

  Beasley, R. K., Kaarbo, J. & Oppermann, K., Mar 2021, In: Global Studies Quarterly. 1, 1, 14 p., ksab001.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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