The influence of advisers and decision strategies on foreign policy choices: Presidents Clinton's decision to use force in Kosovo

International Studies Perspectives

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 129-150

  Redd, Steven B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Foreign policy decision making; Kosovo advisers; Madeleine Albright; Noncompensatory strategies; Poliheuristic theory

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; FOREIGN POLICY; HEURISTICS; MILITARY INTERVENTION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; KOSOVO; NORTH AMERICA; SERBIA AND MONTENEGRO; SOUTHERN EUROPE; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 13844275268     PISSN: 15283577     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1528-3577.2005.00198.x     Document Type: Article

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