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Assignment:

Essay: Decision-Making Models and Diplomatic Approaches Assignment Instructions

Overview

In Module 5: Our focus turns to foreign policy decision making models and approaches to diplomacy. With respect to decision making models, the author of our text notes the following: "In an effort to make sense out of the complicated business of making decisions, models have been developed to help explain, describe, predict and evaluate how U.S. foreign policy is made. Models are analytical tools that are designed to serve as simplified representations of reality." With respect to diplomatic approaches, our author points out that "diplomacy remains the classic policy instrument and the one best suited to producing lasting and workable solutions to foreign policy problems." As students of American foreign policy it is essential to have a firm understanding of decision making models as well as the wide array of approaches to diplomacy.

Instructions

Considering the readings from video presentations, briefly describe each policymaking model (5 total), with relevant examples, and conclude by mentioning their specific advantages and risks. Also, briefly describe each approach to diplomacy in Chapter 10 (6 total to include the political use of force) with relevant examples.) Also, briefly use biblical and extra-biblical to inform your own reasoning on whether a CWV privileges any particular decision making model or diplomatic approach.

• Give quality research paper demonstrating your understanding of the aforementioned decision-making models and diplomatic approaches (see above).
• Organizational recommendation: Make two substantive paragraphs for each model and diplomatic approach, the first describing it and the second discussing its advantages and disadvantages/risks.
• You must include citations to a sufficient number of appropriate scholarly sources to fully support your assertions and conclusions. Each paper must contain at least 5-scholarly sources original to this paper and not including the course textbook.