Abstract
The role of leaders in foreign policy analysis has an extensive literature and comprises subfields. Operational code and leadership trait analysis are prominent qualitative methods used in the field. However, the changing nature of international relations encouraged a rethink of the role of leadership in foreign policy and the analysis approach. In this respect, this article aims to introduce a new alternative leadership model, which is called the SNA Leadership Model, developed with four dimensions of; i) contextual background of the country, ii) personal background of the leader, iii) approaches and behaviors, and iv) reflections of background in making foreign policy. The model is developed as a new perspective about the role of leaders in foreign policy through an eclectic and holistic approach.
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How to cite this article Açikalin, Şuay Nilhan (2021)
The SNA Leadership Model presents the background of the country, personal background, approaches and behaviors of leaders and their reflections in the leaders making of foreign policy
Though this model has similar elements to previous works about leadership in foreign policy, it introduces a new structure with four main dimensions of the contextual background of the country in which the leader was born, the background of the leader, the approaches and behaviors of the leader and reflections of leader’s background in making foreign policy
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Introduction Making foreign policy is a dynamic and complex process, which comprises various actors which make the process difficult to analyze. The origins of studies about the role of leaders in foreign policy analysis are two works; ‘Decision-Making as an Approach to the Study of International Politics’ by Richard C. The work by Richard Snyder, H.W. Bruck and Burton Sapin called Decision Making claimed that leaders who act on behalf of the state take action and used this as an approach to study international relations (1962). The article aims to introduce a new approach to analyzing the role of leadership in making foreign policy called the SNA Leadership Model, named based on the initial letters of the author’s name
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