Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making in the Gulf Wars

by Steve A. Yetiv

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801898943
• ISBN13: 9780801898945
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.9" x 8.9"