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Chinese Choices: A Poliheuristic Analysis of Foreign Policy Crises, 1950,1996

FOREIGN POLICY ANALYSIS, Issue 1 2005
Patrick James
This paper uses the Poliheuristic Theory (PH), developed by Mintz, which incorporates both psychological and rational choice components in a synthesis of these previously isolated approaches, to explain decision making in Chinese foreign policy crises. China is an interesting initial case for this project for two reasons. One is its importance as a permanent member of the UN Security Council and rising superpower. The other is China's reputation as a nearly unique "black box",an especially challenging case,with regard to decision making in foreign policy crises. Taken from the authoritative compilation of the International Crisis Behavior (ICB) Project, the nine cases (with available data) in which China is a crisis actor span the period from 1950 to 1996. A comparative analysis of Chinese decision making in times of crisis is used to test hypotheses derived from the PH. The hypotheses focus on how decisions are anticipated to occur over two stages. Principal expectations are that the non compensatory rule, which places priority on political considerations, will determine viable alternatives at the first stage, while choices more in line with expected value maximization or lexicographic ordering will characterize the second stage. [source]

Erratum to: Roach, S. C. "Humanitarian Emergencies and the International Criminal Court (ICC): Toward a Cooperative Arrangement between the ICC and UN Security Council."

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES PERSPECTIVES, Issue 1 2006
International Studies Perspectives 6 (2005): 431-446.
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Thinking Different about the UN Security Council

INTERNATIONAL STUDIES REVIEW, Issue 4 2008
John Mathiason
No abstract is available for this article. [source]

Critical Theory and its Practices: Habermas, Kosovo and International Relations

POLITICS, Issue 3 2008
Naomi Head
Developing the ,applied turn' in critical theory and Habermasian discourse ethics, this article explores whether a communicative ethics approach enables us to examine the justifications for and legitimacy of actions taken by states during NATO's intervention in Kosovo. By focusing on the deliberations which took place in the UN Security Council over Kosovo from March 1998 to June 1999 and the negotiations at Rambouillet in 1999, it will be shown that there are patterns of exclusion, coercion and illegitimacy which not only challenge the claims to legitimacy of the intervention and of the interveners, but indicate the critical power of a communicative framework. [source]