Showing papers by "Janice Gross Stein published in 1977"

Freud and Descartes: The Paradoxes of Psychological Logic

Abstract: Students of international politics have focused their attention recently on the complex interdependencies among states and the increasing constraints on the ability of central decision-makers to manage their environment.1 The scope for independent action by foreign-policy decision-makers has been reduced by uncontrolled technology, uncontrollable market forces, and overcomplicated and poorly specified international processes. At home, a maze of organizational procedures and bureaucratic politics further constrain decision-makers in their attempts to manage their policy environment. The last quarter of the twentieth century, scholars imply, will be devoid of heroes or heroines. The recent publication of two major studies, by Robert Jervis and by Robert Axelrod, restores a humanist perspective to a depersonalized international politics. Each accepts, as an organizing assumption, the continued relevance of the foreign-policy decisionmaker in the contemporary international system. While they