Description
Book SynopsisThe strategic-choice approach has a long pedigree in international relations. This book offers a perspective beginning with an insight: students of international relations want to explain the choices actors make. It allows the application of theories that may apply to various cases such as individuals protesting environmental degradation.
Trade Review"Elegant and groundbreaking ... a useful and insightful framework to guide debates over American foreign policy."--Foreign Affairs "Highly recommended for international relations theorists and policy practitioners."--Choice "Lake skillfully investigates an important dimension of international behavior unduly neglected by traditional theory, and his analysis of the early Cold War is particularly insightful. This is, on balance, an innovative and challenging work that deepens our understanding of American internationalism in the twentieth century."--Frank Ninkovich, American Historical Review
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii Chapter One International Relations: A Strategic-Choice Approach David A. Lake and Robert Powell 3 Chapter Two Actors and Preferences in International Relations Jeffry A. Frieden 39 Chapter Three The Strategic Setting of Choices: Signaling, Commitment, and Negotiation in International Politics James D. Morrow 77 Chapter Four Institutions as Constraints on Strategic Choice Ronald Rogowski 115 Chapter Five The Governance Problem in International Relations Peter Alexis Gourevitch 137 Chapter Six Evolution, Choice, and International Change Miles Kabler 165 Chapter Seven The Limits of Strategic Choice: Constrained Rationality and Incomplete Explanation Arthur A. Stein 197 References 229 About the Authors 261 Name Index 263 General Index 267
