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Explaining Foreign Policy:

U.S. Decision-Making in the Gulf Wars 2ed

ISBN-13: 9780801898945
Publisher: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
Imprint: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS
By Steve A. Yetiv
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Local release date: 14/05/2011
Format: Paperback 336 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Politics & government [JP]

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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 decisionmaking process in the two Gulf Wars and to develop theoretical notions about foreign policy. What Yetiv discovers, in addition to empirical evidence about the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars, is that no one approach provides the best explanation, but when all five are used, a fuller and more complete understanding emerges.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.

Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The United States, Iraq, and the Crisis: Some Background
2. The Rational Actor Model
3. A Cognitive Compass: Analogies at Work
4. Constructing the Threat: Saddam the Global Menace
5. Elements of Groupthink on the Road to War
6. Government Politics: Not Much, Actually
7. Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall: Evaluating the Perspectives
8. Threading the Tale
9. Tackling Puzzles and Developing Theory
10. Understanding Government Behavior: Integrating Process, Choice, and Outcome
11. Invading Iraq
12. Beyond the Gulf: Foreign Policy and World Politics
Appendix: Core Interviews
Notes
Bibliography
Index

""Provides a multiperspective approach that can enrich and enlighten readers' knowledge of foreign policy decisions.""

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