Hermann (1978) argues that the focus on goals to understand…
Hermann (1978) argues that the focus on goals to understand foreign policy decisions is difficult because we can never truly know an entities goals, it is unclear whether an individual or a government is making the decision (and depending on that answer, whose “goal” we are using to understand the foreign policy). Of course, if we are trying to understand the government’s goal, then we surrender the possibility that bureaucracy or organizational procedure could have altered the policy (making it a result of something other than the goal). In turn, Hermann (1978) argues that we should concentrate on what?
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