Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Faculty
T. Igarashi
Description
We will explain why foreign policies are different or similar among countries and issue areas of each country, considering the ongoing globalization in this course. At first, we will examine structural conditions which influence foreign policies such as the country’s position in the international affairs and characteristics of the foreign policy process which vary with actors and other operating factors. Then, we will investigate how foreign policies are formulated and decided in the issue areas, focusing on such factors as information, analytical ability, domestic interests, political leadership and popular support.
The course will proceed in the following order:
1. Introduction
2. Theories of Decision-Making
3. Types of the Foreign Policy Process
4. International Position and Leadership Style
5. Structure of International Affairs and Issue Areas of the Security Policy
6. U.S. Foreign Policy and Its Soft Power
7. Japanese Foreign Policy
8. Two-Level Game
9. Transnational Political Process
10. International Cooperation and Multilateralism
11. Diversification of the Foreign Policy Processes in the Age of Globalization
12. Global Governance and Preventive Diplomacy,
13. U.S. Decision Making of the Iraq War