Foreign Policy Under Carter - Testing Multiple Advocacy Decision Making

List of contents

Decision making and the multiple advocacy model, President Carter and the foreign policy process, SALT II : the deep cuts proposals, The Ogaden war, Normalizing relations with China, The fall of the Shah

About the author

Alexander Moens is associate professor of political science at Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada.

Summary

Originally published in 1990, this volume looks at the Carter administration and the policy decisions his national security advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski, Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and the Secretary of Defense Harold Brown during the presidency. Referring to case studies of Carter administration decision making which in the author's view demonstrate Brzezinski's transformation from brokerage to an advocate role- SALT II in early 1977, Ogaden War in 1977-78, the normalisation of US relations with China (1978) and the fall of the Shah of Iran in 1978-79.

Product details

• Authors: Moens, Alexander Moens
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2021
• EAN: 9780367015732
• ISBN: 978-0-367-01573-2
• No. of pages: 212
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations