Understanding how leaders make foreign policy and national security
decisions is of paramount importance for the policy community and
academia. Yet on their own, neither rational nor cognitive schools of
decision-making analysis offer totally convincing results, and in any
case, rigorous decision analysis methodologies are rarely, if ever,
applied to the decisions of world leaders. How Do Leaders Make
Decisions?: Evidence from the East and West, Part B, the second in a
two-part volume covering a total of ten world leaders, fills this gap
by using the Applied Decision Analysis (ADA) method to explore how
figures such as Putin, Erdogan, Khaled Mashal, Mao, and Saddam Hussein
make or made major decisions of international significance. By
analysing the decisions made by key political figures around the
world, past and present, the chapters gathered here shed light on how
they are reached and what policy implications they have for their own
and other nations. The analyses are based on traditional and
contemporary theories of foreign policy decision making, including,
but not limited to, the rational actor model, the cybernetic theory of
decision, poliheuristic theory, and various decision rules, including
the elimination-by-aspect rule and the lexicographic decision rule.
Cumulatively, what these chapters uncover is that foreign and national
security policies can be best explained by tracing the cognitive
process leaders go through in formulating and arriving at their
decisions. For its groundbreakingly rigorous methodology and its
unprecedented scope, this book and its companion book are essential
reading for students, scholars, and policymakers alike.
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ISBN
9781838678135
Publisert
2019
Utgiver
Vendor
Emerald Publishing Limited
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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