POLI 381 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Bounded Rationality, James Keeley, Kenneth Waltz

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 381
• Professor: James( Jim) Francis Keeley

Document Summary

This lecture is influenced by the written works of valerie m. hudson - well-known. The focus on foreign policy focuses heavily on decision making. The failure to act or decide is an action and this also becomes analysed. One of the problems in foreign policy analysis is what affects the decisions that actors make. The answer can be broadened to include anything: synder and bruck composed a long winding list that included nearly everything that can effect decisions made by actors. It is a complex problem, which is why it is tempting to look at systematic forces on the dictates of being a unified rational actor. With the populatity of kenneth waltz people decided to start with systematic level, then move down from their to the state and finally to the individual. However foreign policy begin with the state apparatus, it begins with the state and then go back to the systematic forces.