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    Russell Bova, HOW THE WORLD WORKS New York, 2012 Levels of Analysis The Making of Foreign Policy ‘The national interest,” a concept that lies at the heart of the realist nays of fs more productively viewed asthe interests of various ayers—not all of which may coincide, and not al of which are coherently related to anything resembling an abjective navanal terest.) Vole Hudson, 1995 The state has purposes of its own, The national interest does have lempiral rea fis defined asa consistent set of objectives sught by central decision-makers? Stephen D. rose, 1978 ages of his book, the tendency ito talk about the behaviors, policies, snd intxets of sates individual actos, Language such a “the Unite States did tie" ot “China ‘id tha” is commonplace, For many scholar, such language is convenient shorthand for the more conplex and often invisible process of formulating a state's foreign policy. But ican be, as Vales Hudson suggests, a gross ovesinplification that disguises the way the world works, falsely conferring #coberene in policy and intrest onto a state's behavior For reali such as Stephen Krasncs however, such language is neither misleading nor mere shethand, In thet view i indcedreperents the way the world works: that is, states are unitary actors in world poles wih interests tht transcend those of domestic individuals and groups. Thus, ie doe have meaning 0 say that Chinese inter sts are Xorthat US, policy it ¥. Whatever “special intecests” individals and groupe - ° I most discussions of international relations and wold polities including a the hin a society might sek wo promot, fom the realist perspective, ast of The Int Core stats nets emain and those who formulae foreign py mus and do eee pose them intheon “This chapel look ore closely athe sources of tate behavior i inter aur ational relations and world pots. Specialy the chapter poses wo large Tater of {uestons: (1) Wha ace the key factors or aps ha shape the foreign pies of heme Stil tts, snd (2) how do key foreign poy decom makers process aley es ‘THE SOURCES OF STATE BEHAVIOR for Why ite United Sates invade agin March 20038 Aaa dozen pope that tional st

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