Bush, Barrack Obama and Donald Trump Administrations’ decision-making towards Afghanistan and the broader region and found the discipline of FPA to be extremely helpful. The author of this article, however, applied a number of decision-making approaches from FPA to inform his study of George W. Both fields have found shortcomings within each other. However, generally speaking, International Relation (IR) theories, realism in particular, instead have focused mostly on the nation-state as the level of analysis to explain foreign policy or foreign policy behaviour. FPA focuses mostly on human decision-makers. Students of International Relations (IR) and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) have been confused as to what factors influence foreign policy. * Dr Sharifullah Dorani is South Asian Studies Editor of Political Reflection Magazine.ĭecision-Making at the Bush, Obama and Trump Administrations The Foreign Policy Decision Making Approaches and Their ApplicationsĬase Study: Bush, Obama and Trump’s Decision Making towards Afghanistan and the Region RESEARCH ARTICLE the rest v olume 9, number 2, summer 2019
