Original scientific paper

The Foreign Policy System

Radovan Vukadinović ; Faculty of Political Science, University of Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The authors that want to expand the understanding of foreign policy start from the principle of systems analysis. Systems analysis is seen as a medium with which the activities in the process of decision making are being questioned. Different from various approaches to foreign policy which are focused primarily on a single state's policy, system analysis places individua! foreign policy into a system where there exists the ability for analyzing foreign policy as an international phenomenon. In the case of the adoption of system analysis as a potential approach in explaining foreign policy, it is necessary to point out the fact that foreign systems activity is not taking place ina vacuum which is limited only to that system's borders. The foreign policy of the state takes place in the surroundings of other systems and constantly receives inputs from those surroundings.
International, foreign policy is not a system in and of itself, but because of accuracy and as an easier means of explanation, it is being studied as a system.

Keywords

foreign policy; systems analysis; input; output; surroundings; foreign policy actors

Hrčak ID:

289598

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/289598

Publication date:

15.1.2005.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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