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Simulating the Foreign Policy Decision-Making Process in the Undergraduate Classroom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 April 2009

Julie A. Loggins
Julie A. Loggins
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Western Carolina University
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Abstract

A simulation of the foreign policy decision-making process, as described in this article, can assist an instructor in linking students' abstract understanding of complex political events, circumstances, and decision making to the real-world interplay of the multiple factors involved in decision making. It is this type of active learning that helps bring a student's abstract understanding into the concrete world. Instead of being passive learners relying on an instructor's knowledge, students are active participants in the learning process.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42 , Issue 2 , April 2009 , pp. 401 - 407
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2009

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