Policy Perspectives on National Security and Foreign Policy Decision Making

Redd, Steven B.; Mintz, Alex

doi:10.1111/psj.12010

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“…While their work indicates that rational choice theory is the point of comparison for most studies in the field, it is also the point of departure that takes the field in very different directions. As a result, the authors speculate, “Perhaps these considerations help to explain the diversity of decision‐making theories and the lack of a central theme in how they are applied to real‐world events” (Redd & Mintz, , p. S30). They conclude by suggesting that future work on national security and foreign policy decision making should apply multiple theories to single events in order to maximize explanatory power.…”

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“…Clearly, policy scholars have played an important role in evaluating and explaining some of the most important national security and foreign policy decisions and events in modern history. Redd and Mintz () present a comprehensive review of the works on decision making in the policy studies literature as related to national security and foreign policy. The authors discuss several theories and models, including rational choice, cybernetic model, prospect theory, poliheuristic theory, organizational and bureaucratic politics, groupthink and polythink, analogical reasoning, applied decision analysis, and biased decision making.…”

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Rediscovering Defense Policy: A Public Policy Call to Arms

Archuleta¹

2016

Policy Studies Journal

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Since 9/11, policy scholars have made significant inroads with tremendous insights into U.S. homeland security policy, especially in the areas of counterterrorism and disaster relief. But as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan raged on, the public policy field largely ceded questions of traditional defense policy to international relations and security scholars. This was a mistake. The time has come for policy scholars to rediscover defense policy and rejoin America's national security conversation. With defense spending in decline, the All-Volunteer Force in transition, and emerging threats on the rise, research on defense budgeting and management, military social policy, and cyber bureaucracy are all ripe for scholarly examination. This research note reviews the latest work in the field, reinvigorates national security research agendas for the twenty-first century, and explores several ideas for the way ahead in defense policy scholarship.

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Section: Processesmentioning

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Rediscovering Defense Policy: A Public Policy Call to Arms

Archuleta¹

2016

Policy Studies Journal

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“…15 The application of different decision-making models to the security field has shown the existence of many reasons why decision-making in complex situations can fail. To take a few examples, 16 the cybernetic theory has shown that decisionmakers have limited capabilities for rational decision-making. The prospect theory demonstrates that decision-makers will think not only about solving the problems, but also about their personal and political gains and losses.…”

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Comprehensive Security and Some Implemental Limits

Prezelj¹

2015

ISIJ

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The changing security environment has led to the development of comprehensive security approaches, strategies and policies. The 'Holistic approach' has become an academic and practical mantra. This paper argues, however, that comprehensive security approaches face serious obstacles to their practical implementation. The critical evaluation of several examples confirms that the implementation phase is a weakness of comprehensive approaches and that a truly comprehensive and holistic approach seems to be beyond the implemental capacities of our security systems. Multi-sectoral and multi-level comprehensive approaches become less comprehensive when implemented in practice or even cannot be implemented due to existing narrow perceptions of security or narrow and short-term interests. The trans-sectoral second-, third-and fourth-order effects of proposed security measures are hardly considered or not considered at all. There is no consensus on what exactly comprehensive means, while prioritisation of some areas in the national security policy leads to de-prioritisation of other areas and new vulnerabilities, inter-organisational and cross-sectoral cooperation faces serious limits, threat, risk and vulnerability assessments are not really comprehensive, etc. This paper finishes with recommendations on what to do about these serious limits on the implementation of comprehensive security.

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“…Each year we solicit recommendations for advanced graduate students, working under the guidance of (and often as co‐authors with) leading public policy scholars to write the review articles. Previous essays covered topics including: agenda‐setting (Pump, ), policy analysis (Carlson, ), policy history (deLeon & Gallagher, ), policy process theories (Nowlin, ), public opinion (Mullinix, ), defense and security (Ripberger, ), education policy (Conner & Rabovsky, ), governance (Robichau, ), comparative public policy (Gupta, ), economic policy (Pump, ), environmental policy (Niles & Lubell, ), health policy (Haeder, ), social policy (Guzman, Pirog, & Seefeldt, ), law and public policy (Kreis & Christensen, ), and international relations and policy (Redd & Mintz, ). This year's special issue includes the first of our review articles to be in the second iteration for their theoretical issue areas in the Yearbook .…”

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2014 Public Policy Yearbook: Recent Developments in Public Policy Research

Trousset¹,

Jenkins‐Smith²,

Weible³

2014

Policy Studies Journal

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We are pleased to present the sixth edition of the Public Policy Yearbook. Each year, dating back to its launch in 2009, we have used the content of the Yearbook to develop indicators for tracking developments in public policy scholarship. While we recognize that trends we can identify are only representative of the sample of Yearbook scholars, the patterns of scholarly focus have remained quite stable despite a more than doubling of our membership over the 2009-2014 period. In this introductory article, following a brief description of the Yearbook, we take a comparative look at how research trends in the Yearbook have evolved over the last six years. What Is the Yearbook?The Yearbook was initiated as a hard-copy special edition of the Policy Studies Journal in 2009, and then migrated to an open-access, web-based format (www.psjyearbook.com) in 2011. Each year, through our fall campaign we contact scholars and ask them to provide us with their most recent contact information, fields of specialization, research publications, and a brief summary stating their research interests. This information is verified and presented in a format that provides users with easy access to the Yearbook's content via the Internet.The mission of the Yearbook falls primarily into two categories. We designed the Yearbook to allow users to have a systematic way to identify the broader public policy research community. The multidisciplinary nature of public policy research can make it challenging to identify the experts studying various policy problems, and the Yearbook provides a convenient and helpful instrument to do so. The Yearbook is a broadly inclusive international listing of experts in various public policy domains, identifying individuals working on public policy problems in over 47 countries. By assembling this content, the Yearbook also provides an excellent tool for public policy scholars to increase and broaden the visibility of their work, and to provide the means to network with other researchers, scholars, and graduate students. In addibs_bs_banner The Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 42, No. S1, 2014 S1 0190-292X

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Policy Perspectives on National Security and Foreign Policy Decision Making

Cited by 18 publications

References 115 publications

Rediscovering Defense Policy: A Public Policy Call to Arms

Rediscovering Defense Policy: A Public Policy Call to Arms

Comprehensive Security and Some Implemental Limits

2014 Public Policy Yearbook: Recent Developments in Public Policy Research

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