Learning outcomes

To provide students with knowledge of basic foreign policy decision-making models; to apply this knowledge to composition of foreign policy recommendations; to provide students with an opportunity to participate in a simulation game of foreign policy decision-making.

Contents

Foreign Policy as a Research Focus, Comparative Politics’ approaches to Foreign Policy Decision Making, practical background of foreign policy analysis, practical background of foreign policy decision-making, case studies, future scenarios.

Teaching language

English

Evaluation

Numeric 1-5.

Study materials

- Allison, Graham & Philip Zelikow (1999). Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis. New York: Longman.

- Hybel, Alex (1990). How Leaders Reason: U.S. Intervention in the Caribbean Basin and Latin America. Cambridge, Mass.: Basil Blackwell.

- Technical assignments for policy recommendations composition, rules of simulation game to be distributed to students via e-mail

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