Foreign Policy

Rational Policy and Rattling Consequences

A source of perennial controversy in the formation of national policy is the role of the rational actor as supporting analyst and the degree of rationality that the nation exercises in its diplomatic, military, economic, and cultural relations with another nation or group of nations. History shows that the rational actor approach to policy formation, dependent on imperfect knowledge and imperfect execution, makes mistakes, whether

The defining tenets of realist theories in foreign affairs hold that anarchy is the natural state. Powerful states dominate international actions. As corollaries of that first tenet, realists deal with national figures and influences and ignore or subordinate both international and intra-national interests. That is, if realists are making bilateral policy decisions about a strategic or

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