Decision Making In Foreign Policy

Author : Alex Mintz,Karl DeRouen Jr
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-02-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139487221

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Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making by Alex Mintz,Karl DeRouen Jr Pdf

Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making presents a psychological approach to foreign policy decision making. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome. The book includes a wealth of extended real-world case studies and examples that are woven into the text. The cases and examples, which are written in an accessible style, include decisions made by leaders of the United States, Israel, New Zealand, Cuba, Iceland, United Kingdom, and others. In addition to coverage of the rational model of decision making, levels of analysis of foreign policy decision making, and types of decisions, the book includes extensive material on alternatives to the rational choice model, the marketing and framing of decisions, cognitive biases, and domestic, cultural, and international influences on decision making in international affairs. Existing textbooks do not present such an approach to foreign policy decision making, international relations, American foreign policy, and comparative foreign policy.

Author : R. Snyder,H. Bruck,B. Sapin,Valerie Hudson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2003-01-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230107526

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Foreign Policy Decision-Making (Revisited) by R. Snyder,H. Bruck,B. Sapin,Valerie Hudson Pdf

This classic work has helped shape the field of international relations and especially influenced scholars interested in how foreign policy is made. At a time when conventional wisdom and traditional approaches are being questioned, and when there is increased interest in the importance of process, the insights of Snyder, Bruck and Sapin have continuing and increased relevance. Prescient in its focus on the effects on foreign policy of individuals and their preconceptions, organizations and their procedures, and cultures and their values, "Foreign Policy Decision-Making" is of continued relevance for anyone seeking to understand the ways foreign policy is made. Their seminal framework is here complemented by two new chapters examining its influence on generations of scholars, the current state of the field, and areas for future research.

Author : Nikolas K. Gvosdev,Jessica D. Blankshain,David A. Cooper
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108575843

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Decision-Making in American Foreign Policy by Nikolas K. Gvosdev,Jessica D. Blankshain,David A. Cooper Pdf

This foreign policy analysis textbook is written especially for students studying to become national security professionals. It translates academic knowledge about the complex influences on American foreign policymaking into an intuitive, cohesive, and practical set of analytic tools. The focus here is not theory for the sake of theory, but rather to translate theory into practice. Classic paradigms are adapted to fit the changing realities of the contemporary national security environment. For example, the growing centrality of the White House is seen in the 'palace politics' of the president's inner circle, and the growth of the national security apparatus introduces new dimensions to organizational processes and subordinate levels of bureaucratic politics. Real-world case studies are used throughout to allow students to apply theory. These comprise recent events that draw impartially across partisan lines and encompass a variety of diplomatic, military, and economic and trade issues.

Author : Trenta Luca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317521266

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Risk and Presidential Decision-making by Trenta Luca Pdf

This book aims at gauging whether the nature of US foreign policy decision-making has changed after the Cold War as radically as a large body of literature seems to suggest, and develops a new framework to interpret presidential decision-making in foreign policy. It locates the study of risk in US foreign policy in a wider intellectual landscape that draws on contemporary debates in historiography, international relations and Presidential studies. Based on developments in the health and environment literature, the book identifies the President as the ultimate risk-manager, demonstrating how a President is called to perform a delicate balancing act between risks on the domestic/political side and risks on the strategic/international side. Every decision represents a ‘risk vs. risk trade-off,’ in which the management of one ‘target risk’ leads to the development ‘countervailing risks.’ The book applies this framework to the study three major crises in US foreign policy: the Cuban Missile Crisis, the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, and the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995. Each case-study results from substantial archival research and over twenty interviews with policymakers and academics, including former President Jimmy Carter and former Senator Bob Dole. This book is ideal for postgraduate researchers and academics in US foreign policy, foreign policy decision-making and the US Presidency as well as Departments and Institutes dealing with the study of risk in the social sciences. The case studies will also be of great use to undergraduate students.

Author : Martha Cottam
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429712302

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Foreign Policy Decision Making by Martha Cottam Pdf

An analysis of decision making and negotiation in international relations, this book offers a political-psychological model of the images that compose policymakers' world views. Dr. Cottam explores the limits these images impose on diplomatic adaptation to changes in the foreign policies of other states. She evaluates established models of politica

Author : Melania-Gabriela Ciot
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781443861069

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Negotiation and Foreign Policy Decision Making by Melania-Gabriela Ciot Pdf

Foreign policy decisions are influenced by many factors. The real world is complex and many variables have to be considered when making a decision. A psychological approach to decision-making facilitates the understanding and explaining of the complexity of foreign and global policies precisely because of the prolonged transitional stage of the contemporary international system. The course of world politics is shaped by the decisions of leaders. Uncertainty involved in decision-making in foreign policy can relate to the motivations, beliefs, intentions or calculations of the opponents. If it is not possible to understand how decisions are made, then maybe it is at least feasible to understand these decisions and, perhaps more importantly, predict various results with regards to international politics. This book provides a new perspective on the study of international relations by analyzing the subjective elements (idiosyncrasies) that occur in decision-making at the individual level. The use of psychological methods of analysing the foreign policy decision-making process proposes a necessary investigation path into international relations.

Author : Donald A. Sylvan,James F. Voss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1998-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 052162293X

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Problem Representation in Foreign Policy Decision-Making by Donald A. Sylvan,James F. Voss Pdf

This volume explains the representation of a problem as well as the choice among specified options for its solution.

Author : Joseph Frankel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:981307381

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The Making of Foreign Policy by Joseph Frankel Pdf

Author : Richard Carlton Snyder
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Decision-making
ISBN : UOM:39015002215369

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Foreign Policy Decision-making by Richard Carlton Snyder Pdf

Author : Steve A. Yetiv
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 080187811X

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Explaining Foreign Policy by Steve A. Yetiv Pdf

Scholars of international relations tend to prefer one model or another in explaining the foreign policy behavior of governments. Steve Yetiv, however, advocates an approach that applies five familiar models: rational actor, cognitive, domestic politics, groupthink, and bureaucratic politics. Drawing on the widest set of primary sources and interviews with key actors to date, he applies each of these models to the 1990-91 Persian Gulf crisis and to the U.S. decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003. Probing the strengths and shortcomings of each model in explaining how and why the United States decided to proceed with the Persian Gulf War, he shows that all models (with the exception of the government politics model) contribute in some way to our understanding of the event. No one model provides the best explanation, but when all five are used, a fuller and more complete understanding emerges. In the case of the Gulf War, Yetiv demonstrates the limits of models that presume rational decision-making as well as the crucial importance of using various perspectives. Drawing partly on the Gulf War case, he also develops innovative theories about when groupthink can actually produce a positive outcome and about the conditions under which government politics will likely be avoided. He shows that the best explanations for government behavior ultimately integrate empirical insights yielded from both international and domestic theory, which scholars have often seen as analytically separate. With its use of the Persian Gulf crisis as a teachable case study and coverage of the more recent Iraq war, Explaining Foreign Policy will be of interest to students and scholars of foreign policy, international relations, and related fields.

Author : M. Breuning
Publisher : Springer
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2007-11-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230609242

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Foreign Policy Analysis by M. Breuning Pdf

This book's introduction to foreign policy analysis focuses on decision makers and decision making. Each chapter is organised around puzzles and questions to which undergraduates can relate. The book emphasizes the importance of individuals in foreign policy decision making, while also placing decision makers within their context.

Author : Thomas Knecht
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271056685

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Paying Attention to Foreign Affairs by Thomas Knecht Pdf

Do American presidents consider public opinion when making foreign policy decisions? In a democracy, it is generally assumed that citizen preferences inform public policy. For a variety of reasons, however, foreign policy has always posed a difficult challenge for democratic governance. In Paying Attention to Foreign Affairs, Thomas Knecht offers new insights into the relationship between public opinion and U.S. foreign policy. He does so by shifting our focus away from the opinions that Americans hold and toward the issues that grab the public’s attention. Policy making under the glare of public scrutiny differs from policy making when no one is looking. As public interest in foreign policy increases, the political stakes also rise. A highly attentive public can then force presidents to choose foreign policies that are less politically risky but usually less effective. By tracking the ebb and flow of public attention to foreign policy, this book offers a method of predicting when presidents are likely to lead, follow, or simply ignore the American public.

Author : David Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429581229

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Making Foreign Policy by David Mitchell Pdf

Originally published in 2005. David Mitchell provides a better understanding of the role presidents play in the decision-making process in terms of their influence on two key steps in the process: deliberation and outcome of policy making. The events that have taken place in relation to the Bush administration's decisions to fight the war on terrorism and invade Iraq highlight how important it is to understand the president's role in formulating policy. This influential study presents an advisory system theory of decision-making to examine cases of presidential policy formulation drawn from the Nixon, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and Bush administrations. Easily accessible to scholars, graduates and advanced undergraduates interested in US foreign policy or foreign policy analysis, presidential studies, and bureaucracy and public administrations scholars, and to practitioners and those with a general interest in International Relations.

Author : Charles F. Hermann
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136622465

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When Things Go Wrong by Charles F. Hermann Pdf

The question of how to deal with adverse feedback to high-stakes foreign policy speaks to a number of important, current scenarios in international relations. The esteemed contributors to this book offer explanations and illustrative case studies of critical choice points in foreign and national security policy. Competing theories from several of disciplines, primarily psychology, political science, and management, offer insights into a subject that has been very little studied in foreign policy, yet is as current as today’s headlines.

Author : Ufot Bassey Inamete
Publisher : Susquehanna University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1575910489

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Foreign Policy Decision-making in Nigeria by Ufot Bassey Inamete Pdf

This reality was a direct result of the nature of sociopolitical cleavages and forces, and the functioning of the federal system of government during that period. The succeeding Ironsi Governemnt was too brief and preoccupied with domestic crises to make significant impacts in the foreign policy arena."--BOOK JACKET.