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New foreign policy
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Choices are available
FP issues are complex, multifaceted, and wide-ranging FP issues are often linked FP decision-making involves more actors domestically & internationally (coalition-making) Domestic & international issues are increasingly intertwined (leaders' multiple identities; sovereignty issues; interests vs norms and values) |
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Comparative method/perspective
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systematic study and comparison of political systems
seeks to explain differences between, as well as similarities among, countries explores patterns, processes, and regularities among political systems, and also looks for trends, for changes in patterns tries to develop general propositions or hypotheses that describe and explain these trends |
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Purpose of theory
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theory's ultimate purpose is to predict phenomena.
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Criticism of rational model assumptions
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The assumption that decision makers have all the information they need
The assumption that decision makers are smart The assumption that decision makers agree about what needs to be done |
