1st Edition

The Shaping of Foreign Policy

By William Zimmerman Copyright 1969
224 Pages
by Routledge

224 Pages
by Routledge

214 Pages
by Routledge

How are foreign policy decisions made? This volume shows the various approaches to answer this question. In their introduction, Jacobson and Zimmerman make clear the goals and techniques of the comparative analysis of foreign policy behavior and, following this, they provide seven basic essays exemplifying, with variations, the principal approaches used to explain foreign policy behavior: the... Read more
Preface, Approaches to the Analysis of Foreign Policy Behavior, 1: Soviet-American Relations: A Multiple Symmetry Model, 2: Environmental Factors in the Study of International Politics, 3: Toward an Inventory of Basic Trends and Patterns in Comparative and International Politics, 4: A Developmental Approach to Political Systems, 5: Domestic Structure and Foreign Policy, 6: National Images and International Systems, 7: Assumptions of Rationality and Nonrationality in Models of the International System, For Further Reading: A Bibliographical Note, Index

Biography

William Zimmerman