Analyzing Actors:
Analyzing international incidents is an important part of geopolitics and business strategy. When countries clash, what is really going on? Who are the main actors? What is driving the dynamics of the situation?
Please choose a foreign policy incident/clash between two nations and then use the three Allison Frameworks (Models I “Rational Actor”, II “Organizational Behaviour” and III “Personal & Bureaucratic Politics”) to analyze it. Please briefly describe the incident itself, and then explain whether you think Allisons Models,I, II or III or some combination of them! – offers the best framework for understanding the situation, and the evidence you find to support this belief.
The incident can be recent or several decades old, but a good choice will include elements that allow you to use all three models to notice different actors and deduce different motives.
You may want to construct a timeline or a chronology or other tools to organize your thoughts, but this is not required.
It will be very hard to find a pure Model I, II, or II case reality is messy so it is OK to say that the case you have chosen has elements of each. What I am looking for is for is that you use the Allison models to provide a nuanced analytic view of a particular incident, and you then articulate a clear position about what is really going on.
Document Preparation:
The main body of the text should be complete sentences: your report should not just be a collection of bullet points.
If you use appendices (which is strongly encouraged), please refer to them in the text.
Please employ proper citation of all outside sources used, if any, i.e. newspaper articles, industry reports, statistics, URLs, etc.
Please define any terminology crucial to your argument.
Avoid submitting word soup. Clarity of argument and organization counts.
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