Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making

Mintz, Alex

ISBN 10: 0521700094 / ISBN 13: 9780521700092

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2010

About this Item

Firm and square with strong joints and sharp corners, just showing a few mild bumps and rubs. Hence a non-text page is stamped 'damaged'. Despite such this book is actually in nearly new condition with no defects. Thus the contents are crisp, fresh and tight. And so it looks and feels unread and is now offered for sale at a very reasonable price. Seller Inventory # 135620

Bibliographic Details

Title: Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Like New

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

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.

Review:

'... 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