INTA 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Human Nature, Eisenhower Doctrine, Bush Doctrine
12 Feb 2013
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The policies that governments apply to their approach to international relations: security, trade, diplomacy. Foreign policies: strategies that governments use to guide their actions toward other states, sometimes encapsulated in a doctrine: truman doctrine, eisenhower doctrine, bush doctrine, etc. The study of the approach and variation to the approach that nations take when interacting with other nations. The set of decisions that governments take to come to a decision on how to implement their foreign policy. Traditional approach: focus on the decision maker. Comparative foreign policy: behaviouralism and pre-theory . Bureaucratic structures and processes: decision-making during crisis. Multilevel, multidimensional: the general theories, the importance of ideas. Individual: human nature, leaders and the belief systems, personalities, cognition and perception. Group: government bureaucracies, policymaking groups, ngos. Global: systemic, balance of power, global patterns. Identified the inherent limits of rational individualist explanations of foreign policy.
