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.
Thoroughly updated with a new preface and a chapter on the 2003
Iraq War, "Explaining Foreign Policy," already widely used in
courses, will continue to be of interest to students and scholars
of foreign policy, international relations, and related fields.
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