Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making

Alex Mintz, Karl DeRouen Jr

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2010
• Print ISBN: 9780521876452
• eBook ISBN: 9780511717628
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: International Relations
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-title
• Title
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
• PART TWO: THE DECISION ENVIRONMENT
• PART THREE: MODELS OF DECISION MAKING
• PART FOUR: DETERMINANTS OF FOREIGN POLICY DECISION MAKING
• PART FIVE: MARKETING FOREIGN POLICY
• PART SIX: CONCLUSION
• APPENDIX: Foreign Policy Simulation and Exercise
• References
• Index