Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making in the Gulf Wars
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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. [From Amazon.com]
ISBN
9780801898945
Publication Date
2011
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
City
Baltimore, Maryland
Keywords
Persian Gulf War (1991), Iraq War (2003), Foreign policy, Groupthink, United States
Disciplines
American Politics | International Relations | Military History | Political History | Political Theory
Recommended Citation
Yetiv, Steve A., "Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making in the Gulf Wars" (2011). Political Science & Geography Faculty Books. 14.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/politicalscience_geography_books/14