The key determining factors for the process of decision-making in the sphere of foreign
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	National Security Reference: Kosorukov, A.A. The key determining factors for the process of decision-making in the sphere of foreign policy. // National Security. 2012. № 4. P. 29-46. URL: https://en.nbpublish.com/library_read_article.php?id=61353 Kosorukov, A.A. The key determining factors for the process of decision-making in the sphere of foreign policy. Abstract: The article includes a complex approach of the determining factors in the foreign political decisions on the level-based approach. The determining factors are situated at the three interrelated levels: global, state, and internal. They include the study of the force factors, their correlations, international institutions, the mutual acceptance of each other by the states and by the international system, autonomy of states, mobilization, greater strategy, social and psychological characteristics of leaders and their ideologies. Keywords: political science, national security, foreign political decision, determining factor, international relations, global processes, state, level-based analysis, politics, society. This article can be downloaded freely in PDF format for reading. Download article References 1. Waltz K. Theory of International Politics. McGraw Hill. New York: 1979. P. 74. 2. Wohlforth W.C., Elusive Balance: power and perceptions during the Cold War. Cornell University Press, 1993, 3. pp. 306-307. 4. Merritt, Richard L. / Zinnes, Dina A. 1989: Alternative Indexes of National Power, in: Stoll, Richard J./Ward, 5. Michael D. (eds.): Power in World Politics, Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 11-12. 6. Walt, The Origins of Alliances (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1987), p. 21. 7. Zakaria F. From Wealth to Power. Princeton University Press. 1998. p.25. 8. Nye J. Bound to Lead: The Changing Nature of American Power, Harvard University, 1990. 9. Christensen T.J. Useful Adversaries: Grand Strategy, Domestic Mobilization, and Sino-American Confl ict, 10. 1947-1958. Princeton University Press. 1996. p.28. 11. Farnham B. Ronald Reagan and the Gorbachev Revolution. Political Science. Quarterly, Summer 2001. March 12. 13. p. 30.

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Kosorukov, A.A. The key determining factors for the process of decision-making in the sphere of foreign policy.