Book contents
- Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa
- Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- 1 Political Ideology and Foreign Policy Decision-Making in the Middle East and North Africa
- 2 Political Islam and Sunni Ideology
- 3 Political Islam and Shia Ideology
- 4 Secularist Leaders in the Levant
- 5 Armed Nonstate Actors’ Foreign Policy
- 6 Leaders, Foreign Policy Decision-Making, and International Relations
- 7 Policy Implications and Future Research
- Bibliography
- Index
6 - Leaders, Foreign Policy Decision-Making, and International Relations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 August 2023
- Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa
- Leaders in the Middle East and North Africa
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Abbreviations
- 1 Political Ideology and Foreign Policy Decision-Making in the Middle East and North Africa
- 2 Political Islam and Sunni Ideology
- 3 Political Islam and Shia Ideology
- 4 Secularist Leaders in the Levant
- 5 Armed Nonstate Actors’ Foreign Policy
- 6 Leaders, Foreign Policy Decision-Making, and International Relations
- 7 Policy Implications and Future Research
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Chapter 6 focuses on the theoretical conclusions of the book. The chapter discusses the utility of operational code analysis in explaining individual-level foreign policy decisions, and how different competing ideologies translate into different foreign policy tendencies mediated by individual MENA leaders. The comparative analysis of individual leaders’ operational codes is broken down into in-group, out-group, regional, and world leadership norming-sample comparisons. A specific reference to the usefulness of FPA as a subfield of IR literature is made and ideas for future research are discussed. The chapter synthesizes insights drawn from the analyses and case studies, followed by an expanded discussion of the implications of this research for policy-oriented studies.
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- Leaders in the Middle East and North AfricaHow Ideology Shapes Foreign Policy, pp. 129 - 152Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023