ABSTRACT
Ole Holsti, one of the deans of US foreign policy analysis, examines the complex factors involved in the policy decision-making process including the beliefs and cognitive processes of foreign policy leaders and the influence public opinion has on foreign policy. The essays, in addition to being both theoretically and empirically rich, are historical in breadth--with essays on Vietnam--as well as contemporary in relevance--with essays on public opinion and foreign policy after 9/11.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|31 pages
Foreign Policy Leaders
chapter 3|19 pages
Cognitive Process Approaches to Decision-Making
Foreign Policy Actors Viewed Psychologically [1976]
part II|258 pages
Opinion Leaders, Public Opinion, and American Foreign Policy
chapter 4|34 pages
Public Opinion and Foreign Policy
Challenges to the Almond-Lippmann Consensus [1992]
chapter 6|46 pages
Vietnam, Consensus, and the Belief Systems of American Leaders
with James N. Rosenau [1979]
chapter 7|28 pages
Liberals, Populists, Libertarians, and foreignpolicytypes.
The Link between Domestic and International Affairs
with James N. Rosenau [1996]
chapter 9|29 pages
A Widening Gap between the U.S. tudies on Civilian Society?
Some Evidence, 1976–96
[1998–99]
chapter 11|42 pages
A Return to Isolationism and Unilateralism?
American Public Opinion, Pre- and Post-September 11 [2003]
part III|49 pages
Conclusion
