- Praise for the previous edition, <i>Foreign Policy 2e</i>
- Foreword
- How to use this book
- Guided tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Foreign policy analysis
- 1. The history and evolution of foreign policy analysis
- 2. Realism and foreign policy
- 3. Liberalism and foreign policy
- 4. Constructivism and foreign policy
- 5. Discourse analysis, post-structuralism, and foreign policy
- Section 2 Analysing foreign policy
- 6. Actors, structures, and foreign policy analysis
- 7. Foreign policy decision making
- 8. Implementation and behaviour
- 9. Public diplomacy
- 10. The role of media and public opinion
- 11. The primacy of national security
- 12. Economic statecraft
- 13. Duties beyond borders
- Section 3 Foreign policy case studies
- 14. The Cuban Missile Crisis
- 15. Canada and antipersonnel landmines
- 16. Neoconservatism and the domestic sources of American foreign policy
- 17. China and the Tian’anmen Crisis of June 1989
- 18. India and the World Trade Organization
- 19. Rising Brazil and South America
- 20. Australia and global climate change
- 21. Israeli–Egyptian (in)security
- 22. What kind of power? European Union enlargement and beyond
- 23. Energy and foreign policy
- 24. The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
(p. 130) 7. Foreign policy decision making: Rational, psychological, and neurological models
- Chapter:
- (p. 130) 7. Foreign policy decision making: Rational, psychological, and neurological models
- Author(s):
Janice Gross Stein
- DOI:
- 10.1093/hepl/9780198708902.003.0007
This chapter examines the use of rational, psychological, and neurological models in foreign policy decision making. It begins with a discussion of two commonsensical models of rationality in decision making. In the first model, rational decision making refers to the process that people should use to choose. The second, more demanding, models of rational choice expect far more from decision makers. Borrowing heavily from micro-economics, they expect decision makers to generate subjective probability estimates of the consequences of the options that they consider, to update these estimates as they consider new evidence, and to maximize their subjective expected utility. The chapter proceeds by exploring psychological models and the so-called cognitive revolution, the relevance of cognitive psychology to foreign policy analysis, and the ways that the study of the neuroscience of emotion and cognition can be extended to the analysis of foreign policy and to decision making.
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- Praise for the previous edition, <i>Foreign Policy 2e</i>
- Foreword
- How to use this book
- Guided tour of the Online Resource Centre
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on contributors
- Introduction
- Section 1 Foreign policy analysis
- 1. The history and evolution of foreign policy analysis
- 2. Realism and foreign policy
- 3. Liberalism and foreign policy
- 4. Constructivism and foreign policy
- 5. Discourse analysis, post-structuralism, and foreign policy
- Section 2 Analysing foreign policy
- 6. Actors, structures, and foreign policy analysis
- 7. Foreign policy decision making
- 8. Implementation and behaviour
- 9. Public diplomacy
- 10. The role of media and public opinion
- 11. The primacy of national security
- 12. Economic statecraft
- 13. Duties beyond borders
- Section 3 Foreign policy case studies
- 14. The Cuban Missile Crisis
- 15. Canada and antipersonnel landmines
- 16. Neoconservatism and the domestic sources of American foreign policy
- 17. China and the Tian’anmen Crisis of June 1989
- 18. India and the World Trade Organization
- 19. Rising Brazil and South America
- 20. Australia and global climate change
- 21. Israeli–Egyptian (in)security
- 22. What kind of power? European Union enlargement and beyond
- 23. Energy and foreign policy
- 24. The failure of diplomacy and protection in Syria
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
