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Strategic Choice and International Relations
David A (Ed) Lake
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Description for Strategic Choice and International Relations
Paperback. The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. This book offers a perspective beginning with an insight: students of international relations want to explain the choices actors make. It allows the application of theories that may apply to various cases such as individuals protesting environmental degradation. Editor(s): Lake, David A.; Powell, Robert. Num Pages: 248 pages, 2 tables 2 line illus. BIC Classification: JPA; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 170 x 20. Weight in Grams: 416.
The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and contested knowledge among many theories. With the contributors to this volume, they offer a unifying perspective, which begins with a simple insight: students of international relations want to explain the choices actors make--whether these actors be states, parties, ethnic groups, companies, leaders, or individuals. This synthesis offers three new benefits: first, the strategic interaction of actors is the unit of analysis, rather than particular states or policies; second, these ... Read more
The strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. In an area often rent by competing methodologies, editors David A. Lake and Robert Powell take the best of accepted and contested knowledge among many theories. With the contributors to this volume, they offer a unifying perspective, which begins with a simple insight: students of international relations want to explain the choices actors make--whether these actors be states, parties, ethnic groups, companies, leaders, or individuals. This synthesis offers three new benefits: first, the strategic interaction of actors is the unit of analysis, rather than particular states or policies; second, these ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691026978
SKU
V9780691026978
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About David A (Ed) Lake
David A. Lake is Research Director for International Relations at the Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Entangling Relations (Princeton). Robert Powell is Robson Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written widely on the application of game ... Read more
Reviews for Strategic Choice and International Relations
"Elegant and groundbreaking ... a useful and insightful framework to guide debates over American foreign policy."
Foreign Affairs "Highly recommended for international relations theorists and policy practitioners."
Choice "Lake skillfully investigates an important dimension of international behavior unduly neglected by traditional theory, and his analysis of the early Cold War is particularly insightful. This is, on balance, an innovative and challenging work ... Read more
Foreign Affairs "Highly recommended for international relations theorists and policy practitioners."
Choice "Lake skillfully investigates an important dimension of international behavior unduly neglected by traditional theory, and his analysis of the early Cold War is particularly insightful. This is, on balance, an innovative and challenging work ... Read more