Which Lessons Matter?: American Foreign Policy Decision Making in the Middle East, 1979-1987 (Suny Series in Global Politics)
Description
Christopher Hemmer offers a model for how U.S. decision makers use the lessons of history to diagnose and make policy choices. As policy makers turn to the lessons of history, to which lessons will they turn? This book offers a model of the analogical reasoning process that helps answer the important question of why some historical analogies are seen as relevant for later decisions, while others are ignored. It explores the previously neglected possibility that analogies can do more than simply advance the pre-existing interests of decision makers, but can also determine the very interests ...
ISBN(s)
0791446492, 9780791446492
