Political Science 2231E Lecture 8: Lecture 8 2231

• School: Western University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: Political Science 2231E
• Professor: Nigmendra Narain

Document Summary

Creating foreign policy: domestic determinants, military capabilities, economic system and resources, government, democracy = have to respond to population and voters, autocracy = freedom of action, but no critical feedback. Identity: self-perception, nationalism, gender, civilizational discourse: actor leadership: personal characteristics, perceptions, etc, external determinants = influences. Impact of other states: global conditions, actors: ngo"s, mnc"s, guerrilla forces, structural: air travel, globalization, technology. Internal: steering looking at the available choices a state has, choices, decide goals and objectives, feedback adjustments decision, decisions, what to do change the world, actions, etc, evaluation, feedback, changes decision, course, path. Approaches to foreign policy: comparative foreign policy, various states: similarities and differences, aggression: predisposition, are there certain characteristics, context: gender stratification, political culture, rational actor model, costs versus benefits, process. Identify problem: clarify goals, rank goals, alternative actions, consequences of actions and choices, best policy, psychoanalytic cautions to ram, 1. Misperception/selective perception: biases filtering of info and feedback.