Problem Representation in Foreign Policy Decision-Making

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Donald A. Sylvan, James F. Voss
Cambridge University Press, 13 sep. 1998 - 347 sidor
Previous studies of foreign policy decision making have largely focused on the choice among specified options rather than the prior question of how the options were specified in the first place. Such "problem representation" is the focus of this volume. How do the game theorists' options and utilities come about? Concretely, for example, how and why in the Cuban missile crisis were blockade, air strike, and invasion chosen as options? To answer such questions, the editors contend that the representation of the problem to which the options are a response, the determinants of that representation, and its ramifications must all be analyzed.

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Introduction
3
A Cognitive
29
Problem Identification in Sequential Policy Decision
53
How Problem Representations
80
Image Change and Problem Representation after
116
Evidence
147
Representing Problem Representation
213
A ProblemSolving Perspective on DecisionMaking
249
The Impact
261
Representations of the Gulf Crisis as Derived from
279
Belgian and Dutch Representations
303
Index
343
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