Paris Peace Accords 23 Oct. 1991

Friday, March 13, 2015

Why Vietnam Invaded Cambodia -- POLITICAL CULTURE AND FOREIGN POLICY



WHY VIETNAM INVADED CAMBODIA: Political Culture and the Causes of War (Stephen J. Morris, Stanford University Press, 1999)


Introduction

This theorizing is founded upon an image of states as rational, calculating maximizes of material self-interest

...remains an assumption of most academic writing on international relations. ...leaves no place for concepts such as resentment, envy, rage, hubris, arrogance, or contempt as causes of action. ...

POLITICAL CULTURE AND FOREIGN POLICY

My analysis...:

1. Causes of wars found in policies of states;

2. Policies of states determined by values, attitudes, perceptions, and judgments of a state's political decision makers, acting in environment of domestic and international pressures and opportunities;

3. Values, attitudes, perceptions, and judgments product of cultural predisposition; and

4. This cultural predisposition, "political culture", not necessarily determine political decisions, but it influences them to some degree.



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