POLI 244 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Win-Win Game, Pareto Efficiency, Rational Agent
7 Oct 2017
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Foreign policy decision making: psychological approaches, state-society relations (liberal theory, bureaucratic politics. Bureaucratic politics: the pulling and hauling of politics , fp as a compromise between self-interested governmental o ces or groups, where you stand depends on where you sit . When it comes to foreign policy, there are three di erent dimensions that one can look in terms of the proximity of the cause that helps us make sense of a particular foreign policy. This kind of explanation would be this foreign policy decision was made in order to attain this or that goal. This basically speaks of purposive behavior or goal-oriented behavior and also strategic behavior. This is usually something that calls in rationalist explanation. Wednesday, september 27, 2017 cognitive, but also emotional constraints on the way rationality operates kick in. It also has do to here with what liberal theorists teach us.
