INTA 1110 Lecture Notes - Foreign Policy Analysis, Bounded Rationality, Cuban Missile Crisis
30 Nov 2012
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Strategies govs use to guide their actions toward other states, sometimes encapsulated in a doctrine. Is a set of procedures and structures that states use to arrive at foreign policy decisions along with their implementation. Is the study of the strategies and processes. Identified the inherent limits of rational individualist explanations of foreign policy. Used experience observing the cuban missile crisis as a case study. Three lenses: rational actor, organization behavior, governmental politics. Encapsulated in the process described in previous slide. Bounded rationality: 100% rationality cannot be achieved due to information limits. Group psychology: group think the tendency of individuals within a group to agree and ignore contrary evidence despite its logic due to adoption of prevailing opinion. Prospect theory: choices structured by comparison to a reference point. What are the pieces within a nation which influence foreign policy: the executive, diplomatic corps, legislative branches, general public.
