Dr Ryan Beasley

Senior Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 462992

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.

Selected publications

• Constructing time in foreign policymaking: Brexit's timing entrepreneurs, malcontemps, and apparatchiks

  Hom, A. & Beasley, R. K., 7 Jul 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : International Affairs.

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

  Beasley, R. K. & Hom, A., 17 May 2020, (Accepted/In press) In : Foreign Policy Analysis.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• British foreign policy after Brexit: losing Europe and finding a role

  Oppermann, K., Beasley, R. & Kaarbo, J., 17 Jul 2019, In : International Relations. Online First, 24 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Casting for a sovereign role: socialising an aspirant state in the Scottish independence referendum

  Beasley, R. K. & Kaarbo, J., 1 Mar 2018, In : European Journal of International Relations. 24, 1, p. 8-32 25 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Covert operations, wars, detainee destinations, and the psychology of democratic peace

  Crandall, C., Cox, O., Beasley, R. & Omelicheva, M., 1 May 2018, In : Journal of Conflict Resolution. 62, 5, p. 929-956

  Research output: Contribution to journal ? Article

• Comparative foreign policy analysis

  Lantis, J. & Beasley, R., Apr 2017, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Thompson, W. R. (ed.). Oxford University Press, (Oxford Research Encyclopedias).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Quantitative approaches in coalition foreign policy: scope, content, process

  Oktay, S. & Beasley, R., Dec 2017, In : European Political Science. 16, 4, p. 475-488

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• Dissonance and decision-making mistakes in the age of risk

  Beasley, R., 18 Feb 2016, In : Journal of European Public Policy. 23, 5, p. 771-787

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• To be or not to be a state? Role contestation in the debate over Scottish Independence

  Beasley, R., Kaarbo, J. & Solomon-Strauss, H., 11 May 2016, Domestic Role Contestation, Foreign Policy, and International Relations. Cantir, C. & Kaarbo, J. (eds.). Routledge

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding ? Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• Explaining extremity in the foreign policies of parliamentary democracies

  Beasley, R. K. & Kaarbo, J., 11 Dec 2014, In : International Studies Quarterly. 58, 4, p. 729-740 12 p.

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