Exam 6: Bureaucracies, Groups, and Individuals in the Foreign Policy Process

The discomfort that results when a new piece of information does not fit with existing beliefs is known as which of the following?

Having friends or parents state early in the process of your college selection that a particular college is inappropriate might cause you to exclude that college without much thought. This is an example of what concept in action?

In the United Kingdom, the power to declare war officially lies with the monarch. Who has the power to declare war in practice?

The groupthink process undermines one of the most important requirements of rational decision making; what is this requirement?

Compare and contrast the major tenets and implications of the bureaucratic politics and the organizational process models of decision making.

When does bolstering occur?

If President Obama obtained information that did not support his decision to continue negotiations with Iran over their alleged nuclear weapons program, and he dismissed that information as irrelevant, this would be an example of which concept?

Why was Pakistan outraged at the U.S. killing of Osama bin Laden?

What recent events shows the inability of bureaucracies to escape the control of the head of government?

What motivated many of the leaks surrounding the raid on bin Laden's Pakistani compound?

What did the Supreme Court decide regarding President Donald Trump's "Travel Ban" in Trump v. Hawaii ?

What were the Pentagon Papers?

What was the ultimate goal of the Schlieffen Plan?

In the U.S., which organizations are responsible for collecting and analyzing intelligence?

Where do many analysts believe that groupthink took place?

Why might the courts' role in foreign policy be growing?

When does unmotivated bias result?

What are the sources of misperception in foreign policy decision making? What are some strategies to avoid the pitfalls of making a decision based on misperceptions?

How many times has the U.S. Congress declared war since World War II?

The analysis that attempts to understand states' behaviors in terms of states and actors at the domestic (state and substate)level is known as which of the following?