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“The decision-making is only a partial theory of international politics.” Critically examine the above statement.

  • UPSC 1999
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Decision-making theory, launched by Richard C. Snyder, H. W. Bruck and Burton Sapin in 1954 and refined by Graham T. Allison in Essence of Decision (1971), explains international politics through the choices of officials acting in the state's name. The statement places it at one level of analysis only. J. David Singer (1961) framed this…

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