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Explaining foreign policy : U.S. decision-making and the Persian Gulf War by Steve A. Yetiv, Louis I Jaffe Professor of International Relations Steven A Yetiv is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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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. In the case of the Gulf War, Yetiv demonstrates the limits of models that presume rational decision-making as well as the crucial importance of using various perspectives. Drawing partly on the Gulf War case, he also develops innovative theories about when groupthink can actually produce a posi

Who reads Explaining foreign policy : U.S. decision-making and the Persian Gulf War?

Author

Steve A. Yetiv, Louis I Jaffe Professor of International Relations Steven A Yetiv

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801878107

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Language Learning, History