Date of Award
6-2013
Document Type
Union College Only
Degree Name
Bachelor of Arts
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
Michele Angrist
Language
English
Keywords
foreign policy, politics, leadership, dictatorships
Abstract
The consideration of regime type as a sort of contextual lens through which to understand the decision environment, international, domestic, and psychological factors involved in the foreign policy crisis decision-making process is an extremely complicated progression. During the Gulf crisis, the influence of regime type held different meanings for a democracy and a non-democracy in the Middle East. For this reason, foreign policy crisis behavior in non-democracies should not be dismissed as it so often is in existing literature concerning this topic. While my conclusions have suggested that psychological factors, such as leaders’ personality and leadership style, played a greater role in a dictatorship than in a democracy, this certainly does not mean that it is true for all dictatorships or untrue for all democracies. If anything, this study has demonstrated that there are layers upon layers of information and influential factors that go into the foreign policy crisis decision-making process, and none of these answers are clear cut or easy to understand.
Recommended Citation
Heydrick, Aubree, "Foreign Policy Crisis Decision-Making in the Middle East during the 1990-1991 Gulf Crisis: A Study of Israel and Jordan" (2013). Honors Theses. 680.
https://digitalworks.union.edu/theses/680