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Strategy Choices of Foreign Policy Decision Makers

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  • I.N. Gallhofer

    (Social Science Department of Methods and Techniques Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

  • W.E. Saris

    (Social Science Department of Methods and Techniques Vrije University Amsterdam, The Netherlands)

Abstract

The assessment of the selection of strategy is studied using documents of a specific case of Dutch foreign policy from the beginning of World War I. First, a content analysis procedure was developed in order to search for the relevant concepts in the documents and to represent the argumentations in decision trees. Thereafter, the applicability of several decision critena to the data is discussed. In order to describe the data, an alternative decision rule had to be developed, one which can be considered an adaptation of Simon's satisficing principle.

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  • I.N. Gallhofer & W.E. Saris, 1979. "Strategy Choices of Foreign Policy Decision Makers," Journal of Conflict Resolution, Peace Science Society (International), vol. 23(3), pages 425-445, September.
  • Handle: RePEc:sae:jocore:v:23:y:1979:i:3:p:425-445
    DOI: 10.1177/002200277902300303
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