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Steve A. Yetiv has developed an interdisciplinary, integrated approach to studying foreign policy decisions, which he applies here to understand better how and why the United States went to war in the Persian Gulf in 1991 and 2003.

Yetiv's innovative method employs the rational actor, cognitive, domestic politics, groupthink, and bureaucratic politics models to explain the foreign policy behavior of governments. Drawing on the widest set of primary sources to date--including a trove of recently declassified documents--and on interviews with key actors, he applies these models to illuminate the decision-making process in the two Gulf Wars and to develop theoretical notions about foreign policy. What Yetiv discovers, in addition to empirical evidence about the Persian Gulf and Iraq wars, is that no one approach provides the best explanation, but when all five are used, a fuller and more complete understanding emerges.

Thoroughly updated with a new preface and a chapter on the 2003 Iraq War, Explaining Foreign Policy, already widely used in courses, will continue to be of interest to students and scholars of foreign policy, international relations, and related fields.

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  • Title Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making in the Gulf Wars
  • Author Steve A. Yetiv
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 2nd
  • Edition 2
  • Pages 336
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Johns Hopkins University Press
  • Publication date 2011-01
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780801898945 / 0801898943
  • Weight 0.97 lbs (0.44 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 1 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 2.54 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1990's
    • Chronological Period: 21st Century
    • Cultural Region: Middle Eastern
  • Category Politics / Current Events
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Foreign relations - 1989-1993, Persian Gulf War, 1991 - Causes
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2010023477
  • Dewey Decimal Code 956.704

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  • Choice, 10/01/2011, Page 0
  • Reference and Research Bk News, 06/01/2011, Page 35

About the author

Steve A. Yetiv is a university professor of political science at Old Dominion University and author of The Absence of Grand Strategy: The United States in the Persian Gulf, 1972-2005, also published by Johns Hopkins.

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