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Comment: Role of idiosyncratic factors in foreign policy.

  • UPSC 1996
  • 20 marks
  • Contemporary Global Concerns

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Idiosyncratic factors are the personal attributes of a decision-maker (beliefs, values, personality, cognitive style and experience) that make that person's choices differ from those another occupant of the same office would make. James N. Rosenau's pre-theory of foreign policy (1966) listed them first among five sets of variables, ahead of role, governmental, societal and systemic…

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