Stephen G. Walker - Rethinking Foreign Policy Analysis: States, Leaders, and the Microfoundations of Behavioral International Relations

RETHINKING FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS

Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, and Mark Schafer present a definitive, social-psychological approach to integrating theories of foreign policy analysis and international relationsaddressing the agent-centered, micro-political study of decisions by leaders and the structure-oriented, macro-political study of state interactions as a complex adaptive system. The links between the internal world of beliefs and the external world of events provide the strategic setting in which states collide and leaders decide.

The first part of this ground-breaking book establishes the theoretical framework of neobehavioral IR, setting the stage for the remainder of the work to apply the framework to pressing issues in world politics. Through these applications students can see how a game-theoretic logic can combine with the operational code research program to innovatively combine levels of analysis. The authors employ binary role theory to demonstrate that relying only on a state-systemic level or an individual-decision making level of analysis leads to an incomplete picture of how leaders steer their ships of state through the hazards of international crises to establish stable relations of cooperation or conflict.

Stephen G. Walker is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. He has edited Role Theory and Foreign Policy Analysis and co-edited Beliefs and Political Leadership in World Politics.

Akan Malici is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Furman University. He is the author of When Leaders Learn and When They Dont and The Search for a Common European Foreign and Security Policy.

Mark Schafer is Professor of Political Science at Louisiana State University. He has co-edited Beliefs and Leadership in World Politics and co-authored Groupthink versus High-Quality Decision Making.

RETHINKING FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS

States, Leaders, and the Microfoundations of Behavioral International Relations

Edited by Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, and Mark Schafer

First published 2011
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Rethinking foreign policy analysis: states, leaders, and the microfoundations of behavioral international relations/ [edited by] Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, and Mark Schafer.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. International relationsDecision making. 2. International relationsPsychological aspects. I. Walker, Stephen G., 1942-II. Malici, Akan, 1974-III. Schafer, Mark, 1962
JZ1253.R48 2011
327.101'4dc22
2010028853

ISBN 0-203-83486-0 Master e-book ISBN

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