Bindra, Sukhwant S.  <br/><br/>
Analysing the foreign policy making process 

 - World Affairs  
 - 27(2), Apr-Jun, 2023: p.22-37 
<br/><br/> Sukhwant Bindra surveys the main contemporary theories used to analyse the ways in which foreign policy is crafted and reviews five factors that influence it. He compares the traditional explanation of foreign policy (State-centric Realism) with the more recent methodology for studying the decision-making process that involves the assessment of the belief systems of decision-makers and the specific roles played by bureaucratic procedures and national cultures. Irrational impulses also influence decisions, even though they may be rationalised by the deciders in order to justify them. The author suggests that decision-making analysis tends to confirm the traditional understanding of foreign policy even though it challenges some of the latter’s assumptions by giving a more complex, behavioural rather than purely Realist, interpretation- Reproduced