Exam Readings Flashcards
1
Q
Levy
A
- Locked into bureaucratic pathways that make stopping war hard
- WW1 example
- ‘Organizational Routines and the Causes of War’
2
Q
Marsh
A
- Bureaucratic politics and Obama’s troops surge
- Political institutions and dynamics drove the decision
-‘Obama’s Surge: A Bureaucratic Politics Analysis of the
Decision to Order a Troop Surge in the Afghanistan War’
3
Q
Badie
A
- Groupthink influence on US policy towards Iraq
- ‘Groupthink, Iraq, and
the War on Terror: Explaining US
Policy Shift toward Iraq’
4
Q
McDermott
A
- Prospect theory and US Iranian hostage rescue mission
- Why decision-makers took extreme actions in high-risk
- ‘Prospect Theory
in International Relations: The
Iranian Hostage Rescue Mission’
5
Q
Schramm and Stark
A
- Women leaders perform masculine behaviour to prove they can lead
- ‘Peacemakers or Iron Ladies? A Cross
National Study of Gender and International Conflict’
6
Q
Potter
A
- Methods used in FPA, qualitative and quantitative
- Decision-making context and international context
7
Q
Berger
A
- Anti-militarism in Japan has shaped its security policies
- Linked to defeat in WW2 and US invasion
- ‘From Sword to Chrysanthemum: Japan’s Culture of Anti-
Militarism’
8
Q
Lind
A
- Japanese security policy, not strict pacifism, ‘buck-passing’
- Others underestimate Japan’s military capacities
- ‘Pacifism or Passing the Buck: Testing Theories of Japanese
Security Policy’
9
Q
Suzuki and Wallace
A
- Japan’s response to growing geopolitical vulnerability
- More skeptical than ever about revisionists
- ‘Explaining Japan’s Response to Geopolitical
Vulnerability’
10
Q
Mitchell and Massoud
A
- Bush’s leadership style and decision-making process
- ‘Anatomy of Failure: Bush’s Decision-
Making Process and the Iraq War’
11
Q
Shannon and Keller
A
- How leadership style influenced US decision to violate international norms during Iraq war
- ‘International
Norm Violation: The Case of the Iraq War’
12
Q
Khong
A
- Influence of neoconservative ideas on US FP in regards to Iraq
- Domestic ideologies rather than strategic concerns were key drivers of Operation Iraqi Freedom
- ‘Neoconservatism and the domestic sources of
American foreign policy: The role of ideas in Operation Iraqi
Freedom’
13
Q
Wajner et al
A
- Global populism is rising from the right-wing, authoritarian
- ‘The effects of global populism:
assessing the populist impact on international affairs’
14
Q
Baum and Potter
A
- Social media influence FP, amplifies public preferences
- FP becomes more responsive to domestic opinion
- ‘Media, Public Opinion, and Foreign Policy in the
Age of Social Media’
