Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making explains how to make foreign policy decisions. This method emphasizes the relevance of psychological elements in foreign policy decision-making by focusing on the decision process, dynamics and outcome.
The book has a wealth of real-world case studies and examples that weave throughout the narrative. Accessible cases and examples include decisions made by leaders of the United States, Israel, New Zealand, Cuba, Iceland, and the United Kingdom, among others.
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The book includes extensive material on alternatives to the rational choice model, marketing and decision framing, cognitive biases and errors, and national, cultural, and international influences on decision-making in international affairs, in addition to coverage of the rational decision-making model. . , levels of analysis of foreign policy decision-making and types of decisions.
Existing textbooks on decision-making in foreign policy, international relations, American foreign policy, and comparative foreign policy do not present such an approach.