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Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2007

Maria Fanis
Maria Fanis
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Ohio University
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Painful Choices: A Theory of Foreign Policy Change. By David A. Welch. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005. 312p. $35.00.

In this book, David A. Welch delivers a nuanced and parsimonious theory of foreign policymaking and policy change. Welch also addresses a perennial concern in international relations, namely whether the search for a general IR theory is futile. His answer, and a persuasive one at that, is that such a search can be fruitful if we ask the right questions.

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BOOK REVIEWS: INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 420 - 421
Copyright
© 2007 American Political Science Association

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