ABSTRACT
Bureaucratic politics can also be seen in the April 1965 decision by Lal Bahadur Shastri to create a Committee of Secretaries "for the coordination of political, economic, cultural, and other activities abroad." United States leadership has at different times vested confidence in the use of staffs, a special Assistant to the President, and in the Secretary of State in attempting to manage the bureaucracy. Foreign service and information service officers would frequently not speak with each other in Indian missions abroad, and there was much duplication of efforts between the two bodies. The dynamic approach would demand a specific, temporally-bounded inquiry into a foreign policy decision to lay bare its policy-making antecedents. International relations, the study of human society on the largest possible magnitude of organization, is generally subdivided into a number of smaller issue-areas for simplicity.
