Development and Foreign Policy: State of the Art

Abstract

This chapter demonstrates the understudied nature of the political economy of foreign policy in relation to economic development to highlight the relevance of the regime coherence framework. On the one hand, there has been a growing interest in exploring the nature, causes, and consequences of state-led development, especially since the 2008 global financial crisis. On the other hand, the foreign policy dimension of state-led development is curiously overlooked. Despite intriguing debates, foreign policy as a separate but interrelated domain is not fully incorporated into the discussions on national development—and vice versa. © 2023, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.