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How Decisions Are Made in Foreign Politics: Psychology in International Relations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 August 2009

Jacques de Bourbort-Busset
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Everywhere* in the world today, we see forces defying each other, preparing to invade other countries as well as organizing resistance to invasion. Is it possible that out of this turmoil of interests, emotions, opinions, impressions, a constructive and coherent international life can emerge? Are we simply at the mercy of events and of conditioned reflexes, or is it possible that a constructive foreign policy can be conceived by rational thought and pursued consistently in the light of reason?

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Research Article
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The Review of Politics , Volume 20 , Issue 4 , October 1958 , pp. 591 - 614
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Copyright © University of Notre Dame 1958

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* Translated by Professor John U. Nef, University of Chicago. This article forms part of a volume, Diplomacy in a Changing World, edited by Kertesz, S. D. and Fitzsimons, M. A., to appear in 02, 1959Google Scholar