Explaining Foreign Policy

Steve A. Yetiv

ISBN 10: 0801898943 / ISBN 13: 9780801898945

Published by Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011

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Thoroughly updated with a new preface and a chapter on the 2003 Iraq War, Explaining Foreign Policy, already widely used in courses, will continue to be of interest to students and scholars of foreign policy, international relations, and related fields. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1, 1 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: 1FBQ; 1KBB; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 236 x 171 x 18. Weight in Grams: 456. . 2011. second edition. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Explaining Foreign Policy
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801898943
• ISBN 13: 9780801898945
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Steve A. Yetiv has developed an interdisciplinary, integrated approach to studying foreign policy decisions, which he applies here to understand better how and why the United States went to war in the Persian Gulf in 1991 and 2003.

Yetiv’s innovative method employs the rational actor, cognitive, domestic politics, groupthink, and bureaucratic politics models to explain the foreign policy behavior of governments. Drawing on the widest set of primary sources to date―including a trove of recently declassified documents―and on interviews with key actors, he applies these models to illuminate the decision-making process in the two Gulf Wars and to develop theoretical notions about foreign policy. What Yetiv discovers, in addition to empirical evidence about the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars, is that no one approach provides the best explanation, but when all five are used, a fuller and more complete understanding emerges.

Thoroughly updated with a new preface and a chapter on the 2003 Iraq War, Explaining Foreign Policy, already widely used in courses, will continue to be of interest to students and scholars of foreign policy, international relations, and related fields.

About the Author

Steve A. Yetiv is a professor of political science at Old Dominion University and author of The Absence of Grand Strategy: The United States in the Persian Gulf, 1972–2005 and Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making in the Gulf Wars, both published by Johns Hopkins.