A MODEL of Foreign Policy - Making Process

المستخلص

This paper will try to find a model of foreign policy-making process. In this model foreign policy actions are accounted for by two set of variables - one set being attributes of the external environment of the state and the other being attributes of the domestic environment. The two sets of variables impinge upon the decision-making unit - from which foreign policy actions emanate. This model, then will provide the basic means to analyze the role of both environments in the foreign policy actions of states