Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making

Karl DeRouen, Jr author Alex Mintz author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:22nd Feb '10

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This book presents a psychological approach to foreign policy decision making. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome.

This book presents a psychological approach to foreign policy decision making. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome and includes a wealth of extended real-world case studies and examples that include decisions made by leaders of the United States, Israel, New Zealand, Cuba, Iceland, United Kingdom, and others.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.

'… Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making … is a tour d'horizon of foreign policy-making analysis that offers valuable insights into the complex world of decision-making processes, with many case studies attuned to the theoretical and conceptual frameworks presented in the book … Mintz and DeRouen present a meticulous and excellent study of FPDM processes that should be essential reading for students, scholars of IR and kingmakers.' Tuncay Kardaş, Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs

ISBN: 9780521700092

Dimensions: 231mm x 152mm x 20mm

Weight: 320g

224 pages