Professionalization of Foreign Policy
Transformation of Operational Code Analysis
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Implications for Foreign Policy Research
The final chapter summarizes the main contribution of the book—namely, to provide a method by which foreign policy decision-makers can require their advisers to rate all possible options and then input their j...
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Omnipresence of Codes
Part II of the book is developed into operational code research, notably this chapter and Chapter 5. During the Cold War, fear of nuclear war prompted much of the pre-th...
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Parameters of Decision-Making and Options Analysis
Part III identifies how to professionalize foreign policy decision-making in this chapter and Chapters 7–10 though Options Ana...
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American Policies Toward North Korea
North Korea is now a nuclear power, thanks to blunder after blunder in American foreign policy, most notably a key decision by President Barack Obama in 2013. The chapter begins with the background in earlier ...
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Early Approaches to the Study of Foreign Policy
Part I of the book is developed into the historiography of foreign policy analysis in this chapter and Chapter 2, with a test of theories in Chapter 3
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Quantifying Alternative Pre-Theories
Rather than allowing the field of foreign policy analysis to linger, an effort is undertaken to pool almost all concepts about decision-making and rate their importance across a database of 32 decisions, domes...
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Developments and Problems in Operational Code Research
The pioneering work of Stephen Walker, with many collaborators is provided in detail, giving rise to many insights about decision-making. Social psychological approaches strengthened the analysis, which in due...
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American Policies Toward Cambodia
This chapter and Chapters 8 and 9 demonstrate how Options Analysis can be applied to three foreign policy decisions made by Am...
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American Policies Toward Ukraine
Ukraine occupies the longest chapter in the book, providing historical context for a war that began in the last week of February 2022. Although Western intelligence predicted a quick Russian takeover of the co...
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Pre-Theories of Decision-Making
During World War II, social science was applied as a tool to fight the war, so afterward there was a flurry of activity in foreign policy analysis, trying to apply social psychology and sociology to better und...
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Creating Arenas of Peace
Many zones of conflict have become arenas of peace in Asia. No region-wide organization arose in Asia, in part because the Cold War initially divided the vast region. From the 1970s, the Forum served the South...
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International and Regional Cooperation
World peace has been a goal for millennia. The continents of the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe are so vast that the most practical way to bring incessant warfare to an end would be to hope that small aren...
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Waves of Asian Regional Cooperation
Over the years, regional cooperation in Asia1 has flourished since the first intergovernmental body in the region was established in 1947—the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia and the Far East (ECAFE), ...
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Pivotal Roles in Regional Cooperation
The history of regional cooperation in Asia and the Pacific has largely been one of growth in spurts during the last half of the twentieth century. Few new organizations have emerged during the twenty-first cen.....
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Successful Security Communities
The thesis of the present volume is that Asian and Pacific regional organizations have turned zones of conflict into arenas of peace. What has been presented thus far has proved that thesis: The Association of .....
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The Asian Way and the Pacific Way
As countries in Asia and the Pacific became independent after World War II, there was a surge in various forms of regional cooperation. By the 1990s, there were about 50 intergovernmental organizations in Asia...
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Waves of Pacific Regional Cooperation
When regional organizations began to be formed in Asia, similar developments in the Pacific had already occurred. There were four South Pacific organizations before Asia’s first regional body, the Colombo Plan,.....
