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Book SynopsisAn explanation of how states develop their foreign policy. It applies the authors' theory to cases ranging from American foreign policy since World War II to Chinese foreign policy since 1949 to the Suez Canal Crisis. It illuminates the trade-offs decision makers face in selecting among policies to maximize utility, given a state's goals.
Trade Review"Political scientists Glenn Palmer and T. Clifton Morgan propose a new theory of foreign policy that challenges theories based on security as the single goal of policy analysts."--Choice "[Glenn Palmer and T. Clifton Morgan] set an ambitious program to develop a general theory of comparative foreign policy. They rightly criticize the so-called 'realist' and 'neorealist' concepts, which give an overly simplistic explanation of foreign policy behavior as being policy motivated by one central goal: security of the nation ... [and] offer a few good principles. [In] a clear ... narrative, the authors present a mathematically formulated and statistically based explanation, and test the theory on several historical cases... The book is an interesting attempt to establish a general theory of foreign policy behavior."--Ivan T. Berend, European Review
Table of ContentsList of Figures ix List of Tables x Preface: A Theory of Foreign Policy xi Chapter 1: Introduction 1 Chapter 2: The Two-Good Theory Presented 14 Chapter 3: American Foreign Policy since World War II from the Two-Good Perspective 43 Chapter 4: Three Applications of the Two-Good Theory 69 Chapter 5: The Two-Good Theory Formalized 96 Chapter 6: Tests of the Two-Good Theory 114 Conflict, Foreign Aid, and Military Spending Chapter 7: Substitutability and Alliances 137 Chapter 8: Conclusion 173 What We Have Learned Appendix 183 Bibliography 191 Index 207
