Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making

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understanding foreign policy decision making
Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making presents a decision making approach
to foreign policy analysis. The benefits of such an approach are its ability to explain
not only outcomes of decisions but also the processes that lead to decisions and
the decision dynamics. The book includes a wealth of extended real-world case
studies and examples of decisions made by leaders of the United States, Israel,
New Zealand, Cuba, Iceland, United Kingdom, and others. In addition to coverage
of the rational actor model of decision making, levels of analysis, and types of
decisions, the book covers alternatives to the rational choice model, the marketing
and framing of decisions, cognitive biases and errors, and domestic, cultural, and
international influences on decision making in international affairs. If we are to
understand decision making, we need to understand how information processing
and various biases affect decision making. Existing textbooks do not present such
an explicit approach to foreign policy decision making, American foreign policy,
and comparative foreign policy.
Alex Mintz is Dean of the Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy and Strategy
at IDC-Herzliya, Israel. He is editor-in-chief of the journal Political Psychology,
former co-editor of Foreign Policy Analysis, and former associate editor of the
Journal of Conflict Resolution. Mintz is the 2005 recipient of the Distinguished
Scholar Award for distinguished contribution to the field from the Foreign Policy
Analysis section of the International Studies Association (ISA). He has published,
edited, or co-edited nine books and is the author of multiple articles in top journals,
such as American Political Science Review and American Journal of Political Science.
Karl DeRouen Jr. is Professor of Political Science, Director of the International
Studies Program, and a College of Arts and Science Leadership Board Faculty
Fellow (2008–2011) at the University of Alabama. His work has appeared in the
Journal of Politics, International Organization, Journal of Peace Research, Journal
of Conflict Resolution, British Journal of Political Science, and a number of other
journals. He is currently working on Civil War related projects funded by the Folke
Bernadotte Academy of Sweden and the Marsden Fund of New Zealand (with
Jacob Bercovitch and several others) and a National Science Foundation funded
project on negotiated settlements (with Douglas Gibler). He is also co-authoring
the textbook Puzzles in International Relations(with Alex Mintz and Glen Biglaiser,
Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

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