Understanding foreign policy decision making /

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Author / Creator:	Mintz, Alex, 1953-
Imprint:	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 208 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	International relations -- Decision making. International relations -- Psychological aspects. International relations -- Decision making. International relations -- Psychological aspects. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11826571

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Other authors / contributors:	DeRouen, Karl R., 1962-
ISBN:	9780511712548 0511712545 9780511714627 0511714629 9780511757761 051175776X 9780521876452 0521876451 9780521700092 0521700094
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Mintz, Alex, 1953- Understanding foreign policy decision making. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Table of Contents:

1. Why study foreign policy from a decision-making perspective?
2. Types of decisions and levels of analysis in foreign policy decision making
3. Biases in decision making
4. The rational actor model
5. Alternatives to the rational actor model
6. Psychological factors affecting foreign policy decisions
7. International, domestic, and cultural factors influencing foreign policy decision making
8. Framing, marketing, and media effects on foreign policy decision making
9. Conclusion
App. Foreign policy simulation and exercise.

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