Unit 3 Foreign Policy Analysis Foreign Policy Analysis
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Unit 3 – Foreign Policy Analysis
Foreign Policy Analysis • Foreign policy is designed to protect and promote the national interest abroad • Domestic policy is designed to protect and promote the national interest within the country
National Interest Promote a nation’s • Security • Stability • Prosperity
National Interest Promote a nation’s • Security • Stability • Prosperity In the domains of • Domestic • Regional • Global
National Interest Promote a nation’s • Security • Stability • Prosperity In the domains of • Domestic • Regional • Global Identify threats to those interests, formulate policy
National Interest Policy Matrix Domestic Security Stability Prosperity Regional Global
Foreign Policy Analysis • Differing Models of Foreign Policy Decision-making Analysis (FPDA) – Individual Decision-maker (cognitive paradigm) • Examine the decision-maker using one of several different approaches
Decision-making variables
Affect Decision-making variables
Cognition Affect Decision-making variables
Cognition Affect Personality Decision-making variables
Cognition Affect Group Personality Decision-making variables
Social Milieu Cognition Affect Group Personality Decision-making variables
Social Milieu Cognition Affect Group Personality Time Decision-making variables
Foreign Policy Analysis • Differing Models of Foreign Policy Decision-making Analysis (FPDA) – Individual Decision-maker (cognitive paradigm) • Examine the decision-maker using one of several different approaches • This approach costly in time and resources
Foreign Policy Analysis • Differing Models of Foreign Policy Decision-making Analysis (FPDA) – Individual Decision-maker – Bureaucratic Model • Standard operating procedures • Turf battles
Iraq War case President Bush Secy State Powell Natl Sec Advisor Rice Secy Defense Rumsfeld
Foreign Policy Analysis • Differing Models of Foreign Policy Decision-making Analysis (FPDA) – Individual Decision-maker – Bureaucratic Model – Neorealist Unitary Rational Actor model • Assume rationality, assume unity • Personalities and individual quirks are epiphenomenal • Focus on relative power status
Unitary Rational Actor Black Box analogy Environmental condition Individual or group dynamics ignored Party decision or behavior
Greenstein’s Criteria • When is it worth the time and resources to open the black box? Remember Occam’s razor “One should not increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything. ”
Greenstein’s Criteria • • The actor occupies a strategic position In an ambiguous or unstable situation Where there are no clear precedents Or spontaneous or especially effortful behavior is required.
- Unit 4 lesson 10 american foreign policy
- What is foreign policy analysis
- Too foreign for home
- 1790 foreign policy
- Foreign policy of louis philippe
- What was thomas jefferson foreign policy
- Nixons foreign policy
- Nixons foreign policy
- Actors in foreign policy
- Definition of foreign policy by scholars
- Chapter 33 section 4 foreign policy after the cold war
- Actors in foreign policy
- Truman foreign policy vs eisenhower
- Interwar america
- Lesson 5 american foreign policy
- Hitler's foreign policy timeline
- Foreign policy in the early republic
- Foreign policy imperialism
- Foreign policy imperialism
- Andrew johnson foreign policy
- President taft’s foreign policy emphasized
- Foreign policy