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Explaining Foreign Policy
Steve A. Yetiv
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Description for Explaining Foreign Policy
Paperback. Thoroughly updated with a new preface and a chapter on the 2003 Iraq War, Explaining Foreign Policy, already widely used in courses, will continue to be of interest to students and scholars of foreign policy, international relations, and related fields. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456.
Steve A. Yetiv has developed an interdisciplinary, integrated approach to studying foreign policy decisions, which he applies here to understand better how and why the United States went to war in the Persian Gulf in 1991 and 2003. Yetiv's innovative method employs the rational actor, cognitive, domestic politics, groupthink, and bureaucratic politics models to explain the foreign policy behavior of governments. Drawing on the widest set of primary sources to date-including a trove of recently declassified documents-and on interviews with key actors, he applies these models to illuminate the decision-making process in the two Gulf Wars and to develop theoretical ... Read more
Steve A. Yetiv has developed an interdisciplinary, integrated approach to studying foreign policy decisions, which he applies here to understand better how and why the United States went to war in the Persian Gulf in 1991 and 2003. Yetiv's innovative method employs the rational actor, cognitive, domestic politics, groupthink, and bureaucratic politics models to explain the foreign policy behavior of governments. Drawing on the widest set of primary sources to date-including a trove of recently declassified documents-and on interviews with key actors, he applies these models to illuminate the decision-making process in the two Gulf Wars and to develop theoretical ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
455g
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9780801898945
SKU
V9780801898945
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About Steve A. Yetiv
Steve A. Yetiv is a university professor of political science at Old Dominion University and author of The Absence of Grand Strategy: The United States in the Persian Gulf, 1972-2005, also published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for Explaining Foreign Policy
"Rarely does one find a book that both thoroughly presents a theoretical framework and then actually tests that framework against reality by the vigorous use of history. Steve Yetiv... has done a remarkably good job of balancing both elements in a new study of US decision-making in the first Persian Gulf War." (Perspectives on Political Science) "An important approach to ... Read more