Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521876452)

Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making presents a decision making approach to foreign policy analysis. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome, highlighting the role of psychological factors in foreign policy decision making. 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 errors, 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: Alex Mintz, Karl Derouen Jr
ISBN-10: 0521876451
ISBN-13: 9780521876452
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/08/2010
Pages: 224
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.80d