Shaping of Foreign Policy

How are foreign policy decisions made? This volume shows the various approaches to answer this question. In their introduction, Jacobson and Zimmerman make clear the goals and techniques of the comparative analysis of foreign policy behavior and, following this, they provide seven basic essays exemplifying, with variations, the principal approaches used to explain foreign policy behavior: the systemic, the environmental, the societal, the governmental, and the idiosyncratic (or psychological).Jacobson, Harold Karan is the author of 'Shaping of Foreign Policy', published 2007 under ISBN 9780202309958 and ISBN 0202309959.