Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making and the Persian Gulf: U.S. Decision-making and the Persian Gulf War - Rilegato

Yetiv, Steve A.

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ISBN 10: 0801878101 ISBN 13: 9780801878107

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 2004

Riassunto

Scholars of international relations tend to prefer one model or another in explaining the foreign policy behavior of governments. Steve Yetiv, however, advocates an approach that applies five familiar models: rational actor, cognitive, domestic politics, groupthink, and bureaucratic politics. Drawing on the widest set of primary sources and interviews with key actors to date, he applies each of these models to the 1990-91 Persian Gulf crisis and to the U.S. decision to go to war with Iraq in 2003. Probing the strengths and shortcomings of each model in explaining how and why the United States decided to proceed with the Persian Gulf War, he shows that all models (with the exception of the government politics model) contribute in some way to our understanding of the event. No one model provides the best explanation, but when all five are used, a fuller and more complete understanding emerges. With its use of the Persian Gulf crisis as a teachable case study and coverage of the more recent Iraq war, Explaining Foreign Policy will be of interest to students and scholars of foreign policy, international relations, and related fields.

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Recensione

"Using the Persian Gulf crisis of 1991 as a case study, Steve Yetiv examines how important foreign policy decisions are made. His fresh and interesting contribution brings together competing decision-making theories -- rational choice, cognitive, domestic policy, organization, and groupthink -- to produce a rich interpretation of the event. It is also novel in considering both U.S. and Iraqi decision-making processes. Intriguing, accessible, and useful, this book will appeal to students, experts, and general readers." -- Richard Herrmann, Director of the Mershon Center at the Ohio State University

L'autore

Steve A. Yetiv is an associate professor of political science at Old Dominion University.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0801878101
• ISBN 13: 9780801878107
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 296