PSCI 3605 Study Guide - Cuban Missile Crisis, Actor Model, Utility

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSCI 3605
• Professor: Caroline Petit- Turcotte

Document Summary

Rational actor model (ram) is one of the first of allison s frameworks of foreign policy analysis, introduced and elaborated in essence of decision with the real reference to cuban missile crisis during 1962. When essence of decision was first published in 1971, ram became the trademark of allison. The attempt to explain international events by recounting the aims and calculations of nations or governments is the trademark of the rational actor model . Rational actor model oscillates between decision and choice where decision presupposes a decider and a choice among alternatives with reference to some goal . Human beings act in rationality with certain policy concepts and as to allison, Policy means realisation in a number of particular instances of some agent s objectives. These concepts identify phenomena as actions performed by purposeful agents. This identification involves a simple extension to governments of the pervasive everyday assumption that what human beings do is at least intendedly rational .