PO SC 1020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Cuban Missile Crisis, Appeasement
27 Sep 2016
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Unitary actor: 1 decision maker for state. Policy makers begin with a shared sense of national interests. Ration choice steps ex: cuban missile crisis: russia has 32 identified missiles in russia that could possibly kill 80 million. Americans as far north of washington d. c: goals include: as little dead as possible, compromise, blockade, appeasement, international pressure. A blockade was not in accordance with international law. Put the burden of choice on the soviets. Bureaucratic politics model - overview: there is no one national interest a. Instead, foreign policy making is competitive struggle among various actors: decision-making is a social process, different decisions makers have different roles and levels of power, often times, formal roles determine where someone stands on an issue. Internal compromise: policy decisions are not necessarily chosen because they being the most benefit, but instead compromises between differing views.
