- Major subject students
Learning outcomes
To acquaint students with basic foreign policy decision-making models; to apply this knowledge to the 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 policy 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
EnglishModes of study
Distance learning, composition of policy recommendations, additional reading and simulation game.
Evaluation
Numeric 1-5.Recommended year of study
1st year autumn-spring, in connection with the autumn school at UTA (31 Oct-4 Nov 2011) and spring school in Petrozavodsk (spring 2012).
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
