Foreign Policy Analysis: Classic and Contemporary Theory

267 Pages·2013·1.45 MB·English

by  Valerie M. Hudson

Foreign Policy Analysis

Foreign Policy Analysis
Classic and Contemporary Theory
Second Edition
Valerie M. Hudson
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Contents
Acknowledgments vii
I:OverviewandEvolutionofForeignPolicyAnalysis 1
1 Introduction:TheSituationandEvolutionofForeignPolicy
Analysis:ARoadMap 3
II:LevelsofAnalysis 37
2 TheIndividualDecisionmaker:ThePoliticalPsychologyof
WorldLeaders 39
3 GroupDecisionmaking:SmallGroupDynamics,Organizational
Process,andBureaucraticPolitics 73
4 CultureandNationalIdentity 117
5 DomesticPoliticsandOpposition 141
6 TheLevelsofNationalAttributesandInternationalSystem:
EffectsonForeignPolicy 161
III:PuttingItAllTogether,orNot 183
7 TheoreticalIntegrationinForeignPolicyAnalysis 185
8 TheFutureofForeignPolicyAnalysis 211
Bibliography 223
Index 245
AbouttheAuthor 257
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Acknowledgments
Thisbookhastakenmanylongyearstocomplete,andIwouldberemissifI
didnotthankallofthosewhohelpedandsupportedmealongtheway.First,
to Jennifer Knerr for having faith in my vision of a Foreign Policy Analysis
textbook. Second, to Susan McEachern for so seamlessly picking up where
Jennifer leftoff, andforencouraging meforwardto asecond edition.Third,
to Douglas Van Belle, for his helpful suggestions on one of the early chap-
ters, and to Rose McDermott for friendship and good suggestions. Fourth, I
would like to thank my old mentors in Foreign Policy Analysis, such as
DonaldSylvan,ChuckHermann,andPegHermann,fortheexcellenteduca-
tiontheyprovidedandthepassionforForeignPolicyAnalysistheyinspired
inme.Fifth,Iwouldliketothankmyresearchassistant,S.MatthewStearm-
er,forallofhishelp,especiallywiththeinsandoutsofgraphicsinsertedinto
text files. Sixth, I would like to thank the George H. W. Bush Chair at the
Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University,
and the David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies at Brigham
Young University, for support given to this effort. Seventh, I would like to
thankthosepublisherswhograciouslygrantedmepermissiontousesomeof
my writings previously publishedwith them,including Palgrave,Blackwell,
andLynne Rienner. Eighth, I would like to thankmy ForeignPolicy Analy-
sisstudents,past,present,andfuture,forallthattheyhavetaughtmeinyears
past and will teach me in the years to come. Last, but certainly not least, I
would like to thank my family—my husband, David, and my children Jo-
seph, John, Thomas, Jamison, Hope Rose, and Eve Lily—for their unflag-
gingsupport.Iwishtodedicatethisvolumetomydeardaughter,Ariel,who
diedasIwasfinishingthefirstedition.Wewillbetogetherintheeternities,
Ariel, and if you wish it, I will tell you all about Foreign Policy Analysis
then.
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