Rethinking foreign policy analysis states, leaders, and the microfoundations of behavioral international relations
- New York Routledge 2011
- xiv, 322 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [290]-317) and index.
Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, and Mark Schafer present a definitive, social-psychological approach to integrating theories of foreign policy analysis and international relations―addressing 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.