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12 Cards in this Set
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Rational Choice
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Decision-making procedures guided by careful definition of situations, weighing of goals, consideration of all alternatives, and selection of the options most likely to achieve the highest goals.
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Problem Recognition and Definition
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Gather all information and use objectivity
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Goal Selection
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Determine what you want to accomplish by ranking all values in a hierarchy
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Identification of Alternatives
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Compiliation of all possible policy options and their costs
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Choice
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Selecting the single alternative that will most likely realize goals, weighed by cost-benefit analysis.
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Groupthink
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The propensity for members of a group to accept and agree with the group's prevailing attitudes rather than speaking out for what they believe
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Bush Doctrine
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Unilateral US will make decisions only to meet America's perceived national interests not conceding to any other country's.
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Geo-politics
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The theoretical postulate that states foreign policies are determined by their location, natural resources, and physical environment.
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Constitutional Democracy
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Government that allow people through elected representatives to excersise power and influence the state's policies
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Autocratic Rule
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Authoritarian or totalitarian government unlimited power concentrated in a single leader.
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Divisionary Theory of War
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leaders sometimes initiate conflict abroad to increase national cohesion at home by diverting national public opinion away from controversial domestic issues.
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Democratic Peace
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Theory that although democratic states sometimes wage war against non-democratic states they do not fight one another.
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