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This article is an overview of the major foreign policy issues currently facing Armenia. The first section covers recent domestic changes, including those in the realms of the economy, politics, and defense, and discusses prospects for the future in these areas. The next section addresses the problematic relations between Armenia and Azerbaijan. Armenia's choice of foreign policy complementarity is then briefly addressed, followed by a discussion of many issues relating to the informal alliance between Armenia and Russia. Regional cooperation is next addressed, to the extent of the assertion that no efficient regional cooperation is possible among the nations of the Southern Caucasus. A section on the issue of genocide in the relations between Armenia and Turkey follows; Armenian efforts to raise international awareness of the genocide of 1915 are central to this discussion. Armenia's relations with Western nations are the topic of the subsequent section. The article concludes with a number of statements about what one can expect, in the coming years, in the area of Armenian foreign policy.

The article identifies (demography, strategic location, resource base etc.) and examines Singapore's foreign policy terrain. A brief survey of the country's foreign policy prior to its independence is provided and its vulnerability and sovereignty principle are discussed. (DÜI-Sen)

Cover Page -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Section 1 PERCEPTIONS AND MALAYSIAN FOREIGN POLICY -- Reflections on Perception and Realities in Malaysian Foreign Policy (Zainal Abidin Sulong) -- Alternative Explanation of Malaysian Foreign Policy in the New Era (Azhari Karim) -- Towards a Secure Future: Issues and Challenges of Building Trust (Ramli H. Nik) -- Section 2 REALITIES AND MALAYSIAN FOREIGN POLICY -- Report on the Malaysia-Australia Dialogue on Asian Future 2009 (CenPRIS) -- Report on the Malaysia-Indonesia Dialogue 2009 (CenPRIS) -- Illegal Migration to Australia: The Malaysian Entanglement (Qasim Ahmad) -- Section 3 ASEAN AND MALAYSIAN FOREIGN POLICY -- ASEAN Charter: Meeting the Challenges of the Future ASEAN Community (Mohd Yusof Ahmad and Suseela Devi Chandran) -- Moving Forward with ASEAN Connectivity: Cooperation Opportunities and Challenges in Malaysia-Thailand/Vietnam Relations (Azhari Karim) -- Section 4 CRITIQUE OF MALAYSIAN FOREIGN POLICY -- Higher Educational Reform Values and the Dilemmas of Change: USM's Values Agenda in Global Context (James Campbell) -- Transformation and Law Reform (Sharan Srinivas) -- The Contributors -- Index.

A growing number of states including Canada, Norway and Sweden have adopted gender and feminist-informed approaches to their foreign and security policies. The overarching aim of this article is to advance a theoretical framework that can enable a thoroughgoing study of these developments. Through a feminist lens, we theorise feminist foreign policy arguing that it is, to all intents and purposes, ethical and argue that existing studies of ethical foreign policy and international conduct are by and large gender-blind. We draw upon feminist International Relations (IR) theory and the ethics of care to theorise feminist foreign policy and to advance an ethical framework that builds on a relational ontology, which embraces the stories and lived experiences of women and other marginalised groups at the receiving end of foreign policy conduct. By way of conclusion, the article highlights the novel features of the emergent framework and investigates in what ways it might be useful for future analyses of feminist foreign policy. Moreover, we discuss its potential to generate new forms of theoretical insight, empirical knowledge and policy relevance for the refinement of feminist foreign policy practice.

Across politics and public discourse, feminism is experiencing a global renaissance. Yet feminist academic work is divided over the burgeoning use of the term, particularly in reference to economic and international development policy. For some, feminism has been co-opted for neoliberal economic ends; for others, it remains a critical force across the globe. This article explores the nascent feminist foreign policies of Sweden and Canada. Employing a discourse analysis of both states' policy documents, it asks what the term "feminist" meant in preliminary attempts at constructing a feminist foreign policy. It argues that although both use the term "feminist," they understand the term very differently, with Sweden centering it in domestic and international commitments to change, while Canada places greater emphasis on the private sector. This suggests that this policy agenda is still developing its central concepts, and is thus ripe for intervention on the part of policymakers and civil society organizations.

In "Yearning for a progressive research program in Canadian foreign policy," Jean-Christophe Boucher attempts to survey and evaluate the field of Canadian foreign policy (CFP) using Lakatosian theory-testing criteria. This short response raises a number of questions about Boucher's approach, the most important of which is a challenge to his characterization of CFP as a specialized subfield of political science. Rather, it is argued, CFP should be understood as an interdisciplinary project, whose contributions should be evaluated in terms of multiple disciplinary practices and standards.