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Analyse and evaluate the role of decision-making theory as a tool of foreign policy analysis.

  • UPSC 2006
  • 60 marks
  • Approaches to the Study of International Relations

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Realism and systems theory treat the state as a unitary, rational "black box". Decision-making theory opens the box. In their 1954 framework, Richard C. Snyder, H. W. Bruck and Burton Sapin defined state action as the action taken by those acting in the name of the state. Foreign policy thus becomes the output of human…

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