Richard Snyder’s Approach for Analyzing Decision-Making Process in Foreign Policy

Abstract

This paper focuses on the foreign policy analysis (FPA) and the decision–making approach of Richard Snyder, particularly as one of the classical approaches for analyzing the decision-making process in foreign policy (FP) of the world's governments. The purpose of this research is to investigate Snyder's contribution to foreign policy analysis. In addition, the qualitative method is employed to collect the desired data. The result demonstrates that the foreign policy decision-making (FPDM) is one of the traditional approaches which emphasizes individual and group based dynamic as it is disclosed by Snyder and his colleagues. Similarly, it is one of the most significant academic ways to analyzing states foreign policy in international politics (IP) and can still be used to analyze countries' FP. Also, this approach as a theoretical framework is one of the fundamental FPAs that is regarded as a subfield of international relations (IR) and it evaluates the effect factors of the state FP.