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Be rational not emotional / Nirupama, Subramanian

Nirupama, Subramanian	Journal Article
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2011.

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India ; Rational ; Emotional ; Pakistan - 1967-1977

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China opposing nuclear nonproliferation: a rational policy with an ideological mask / Zhang, Hongyu

Zhang, Hongyu	Journal Article
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Why did a would-be recognized nuclear state oppose nonproliferation for two decades, but then change its position in 1984? Based on extensive fieldwork in Beijing where the author conducted 20 interviews with high-profile Chinese government and military officials, ambassadors of disarmament, and nuclear and astronautic scientists, this article argues that China openly opposed nonproliferation to give its nascent nuclear program time to achieve a retaliatory capability. Once this goal was fulfilled in the mid-1980s, China began accepting nonproliferation norms. While China’s fervent opposition seemed ideological in a revolutionary era, it was indeed a rational behavior in pursuit of security interests.

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Nuclear Nonproliferation ; China ; Rational ; Ideological ; Retaliatory Capability

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Whisper in the leader's ear:: How do foreign policy advisers perform their job? / Honig ,Arthur

Honig ,Arthur	Journal Article
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2008.

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This study seeks to identify the factors that determine advisers' choice of tools and assess their influence under different circumstances. It uses historical process tracing methods to examine the `battle' between President Truman's foreign policy advisers over the formulation of US policy towards the Palestine question. It finds that: (1) advisers' self-perception determines the degree of their flexibility in the choice of tools; (2) the distribution of formal powers, the personalities involved and the type of policy question determine the intensity of the advisory battle; (3) non-expert advisers can win the advisory battle by using psychological tools of persuasion but only under certain specific conditions, which existed in this case; and finally that (4) an adviser's influence will be limited by the extent to which the leader is willing and able to independently form an opinion on the policy question

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Decision-making ; Bureaucratic Politics ; Arab - Israeli Conflict ; Jewish Lobby ; Political Ppsychology ; Rational

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