Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making. By Alex Mintz and Karl DeRouen Jr. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010. 222p. $75.00 cloth, $24.99 paper. - Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making in International Relations. By Mark Schafer and Scott Crichlow. Understanding Foreign Policy Decision Making presents a psychological approach to foreign policy decision making. This approach focuses on the decision process, dynamics, and outcome. The book includes a wealth of extended real-world case studies and examples that are woven into the text. The cases and examples, which are written in an study found the way foreign policy decisions are made is influenced by a number of factors. These include, but are not limited to, the rationality of the decision-makers, an issue much explored with reference to cognition, bureaucratic competition, public opinion, and domestic politics. Foreign policy decision-making is of course also Understanding Foreign Policy Decision-Making - By Alex Mintz and Karl DeRouen; Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making in International Relations - By Mark Schafer and Scott Crichlow. Steven W. Hook, PDF. Tools. Request permission; Export citation; Add to favorites; Track citation; Share Share. Personality in Foreign Policy Decision-Making Written by Caitlin Smith This PDF is auto-generated for reference only. As such, it may contain some conversion errors and/or missing information. For all How Useful is Personality in Adding to our Understanding of Foreign Policy Decision-making? In the realm of foreign policy analysis, the