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“Which of Allison’s three models of foreign policy decision making do you find the most useful? Can one model alone explain how policy is made? Use case studies of foreign policy to illustrate your answer.”2,250Reference and the readings that most be written in the course workEssential ReadingAllison, Graham and Philip Zelikov. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis 2nd Edition. (Longman, 1999) Conclusion. pp.379-407.Additional ReadingAllison, Graham and Philip Zelikov. Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis 2nd Edition. (Longman, 1999) Chapters 2, 4, and 6.Blight, James G., Nye, Joseph S., and David A. Welch. “The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited.” Foreign Affairs, Fall 1987, 66(1), pp.170-188.Allison, Graham. “The Cuban Missile Crisis at 50: Lessons for U.S. Foreign Policy Today.” Foreign Affairs, Jul-Aug 2012, 91(4), pp.11-16.Divine, Robert A. The Cuban Missile Crisis. (Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971)Dooley, Brian. “The Cuban missile crisis – 30 years on (Russian files shed light on history).” History Today, Oct 1992, 42, pp.6-8Fursenko, Aleksandr and Timothy Naftali. “One hell of a gamble”: Krushchev, Castro, Kennedy and the Cuban missile crisis, 1958-1964. (London: John Murray, 1997)Gaddis, John L. We now know: rethinking Cold War history. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998) Chapter 9.Herek, Gregory M., Janis, Irving L. and Paul Huth. “Quality of U.S. decision making during the Cuban missile crisis; major errors in Welch’s reassessment.” Journal of Conflict Resolution, September 1989, 33(3), pp446-459.Hermann, Margaret G. and Charles F. Hermann. “Who Makes Foreign Policy Decisions and How: An Empirical Inquiry.” International Studies Quarterly, December 1989, 33(4), pp.361-387. Available via Google Scholar.Hill, Christopher. “What is to be done? Foreign policy as a site for political action.” International Affairs, March 2003, 79(2), pp.233-255.Hollis, Martin and Steve Smith. Explaining and Understanding International Relations. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1991) Chapters 6 and 7.Hollis, Martin and Steve Smith. “Roles and Reasons in Foreign Policy Decision Making,” British Journal of Political Science, July 1986, 16(3), pp269-286Janis, Irving L. Victims of groupthink: a psychological study of foreign-policy decisions and fiascos. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1972)Kennedy, Robert F. Thirteen Days: A memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis. (New York: WW Norton, 1969)Nathan, James A. (ed.) The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited. (New York: St Martin’s Press, 1992)Nathan, James A. “The Cuban Missile Crisis Revisited: Why It Matters Who Blinked.” Foreign Affairs, Nov-Dec 2012, 91(6), pp.163-166.Scott, Len and Sergy Radchenko. “The Cuban Missile Crisis: Assessment of New, and Old, Russian Sources.” International Relations, 2012, 26(3), pp.327-343Scott, Len and Steve Smith. “Lessons of October: historians, political scientists, policy-makers and the Cuban missile crisis.” International Affairs, Oct 1994, 70(4), pp.659-684Snyder, Richard C. Foreign policy decision-making: an approach to the study of international politics. (New York: Free Press of Glencoe, 1962)Sorensen, Theodore C. Decision-making in the White House: The Olive Branch or the Arrows. (New York: Columbia University Press, 2005) Chapter 2. (Available from Module Leader)Smith, Steve. “Allison and the Cuban Missile Crisis: A Review of the Bureaucratic Politics Model of Foreign Policy Decision-Making.” Millennium, March 1980, 9(1), pp.21-40.Smith, Steve. “Policy Preferences and Bureaucratic Position: The Case of the American Hostage Rescue Mission.” International Affairs, Winter 1984-85, 61(1), pp.9-25.Verba, S. “Assumptions of Rationality and Non-rationality in Models of the International System.” In Rosenau, James N. International politics and foreign policy: a reader in research and theory. (London: Collier-Macmillan, 1969)
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