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
EnglishModes of study
Distance learning, composition of policy recommendations, additional reading and literature exam, simulation game
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
2009–2010
