The United States and North Africa: A Cognitive Approach to Foreign Policy

by Azzedine Layachi

This book examines U.S. foreign policy decision-making and conduct from a psychological perspective that focuses on the structures as well as the content of mental images held collectively and individually by the foreign policy elite. Two case studies, arms sales to Morocco in the context of the Western Sahara war and liquefied natural gas contracts with Algeria, are used to illustrate the usefulness of this perspective. The methodological tool...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275933652
• ISBN13: 9780275933654
• Release Date: March 1990
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"