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Derginin Adı:
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Khazar Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences
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Cilt:
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2016/19
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Sayı:
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1
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Makale Başlık:
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A Defence on the Prominence of Rational Actor Model within Foreign Policy Analysis
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Makale Eklenme Tarihi:
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28.02.2016
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Okunma Sayısı:
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1
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Makale Özeti:
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“That rational and most excellent work of nature, Man” (Hobbes, 1997: 81). This
is how Hobbes bases his introductory account on the creation of the
Commonwealth. A politics founded upon rationality and thus an unnatural product
of man. Years later this principle came to underpin the mainstream school of
thought in International Relations (IR) i.e. the classical Realism. As a subfield of
IR, Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) reflected the assumptions of classical Realism
into an analytical theory known as Rational Actor Model (RAM). While limitations
to the human rationality in the process of decision-making contested its
applicability to international politics, it still remains a fundamental analytical tool.
In fact, it can be a powerful analytical model only if the scholarship correctly
appreciates its theoretical ground. Knowing what the theories are for, and how they
are supposed to be applied are necessary prerequisites to their proper efficacy as
helpful analytical tools. That is to say, if RAM had not wrongly been applied to the
problems, it would not have misguided the FPA theorists.
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