Charles F Hermann
Biographic Data
| ID | 951220 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charles F Hermann |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charles F |
| FAMILY NAME | Hermann |
| SIGNATURE | HERMANN C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | The Ohio State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 543 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Assessing a Mediated Learning Joint Television Course: Foreign Policy Problem Management in the First Bush Administration1
This article reports on a multimedia television course taught jointly at two universities and focusing on foreign policy problem management in the administration of George H. W. Bush. The course centered on appearances by President Bush and his major foreign policy team members, discussing in a case study format, the major foreign policy challenges of the administration. The theoretical framework of the course is outlined, the technological aspec…
People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking: Insights from Comparative Case Studies
Journal Article People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking: Insights from Comparative Case Studies Get access Ryan K. Beasley, Ryan K. Beasley Baker University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Juliet Kaarbo, Juliet Kaarbo University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles F. Hermann, Charles F. Hermann Bush School, Texas A & M University Search for other …
Resolve, Accept, or Avoid: Effects of Group Conflict on Foreign Policy Decisions
Problem Representation in Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Previous studies of foreign policy decision making have largely focused on the choice among specified options rather than the prior question of how the options were specified in the first place. Such 'problem representation' is the focus of this volume. How do the game theorists' options and utilities come about? Concretely, for example, how and why in the Cuban missile crisis were blockade, air strike, and invasion chosen as options? To answer s…
Problem Identification in Sequential Policy Decision Making: The Re-representation of Problems
It is our contention that most foreign policy problems continue over an extended period of time and that policy makers often find themselves returning again and again to the task of coping with an issue they have addressed before. Problems that have been addressed on a number of previous occasions will present a different decision task than those newly faced. Our goal here is to continue our analysis of sequential decision making in foreign polic…
Explaining Self-Defeating Foreign Policy Decisions: Interpreting Soviet Arms for Egypt in 1973 Through Process or Domestic Bargaining Models
How should we explain why a state sometimes adopts a foreign policy in one region that interferes with its concurrent policies elsewhere? In their article in the March 1989 issue of this Review , Stewart, Hermann and Hermann proposed a three-level process model of foreign policy to explain such Soviet behavior towards Egypt in 1973. The analysis has continuing interest because it interprets the puzzling behavior as a manifestation of general prob…
Changing Course: When Governments Choose to Redirect Foreign Policy
We are in a period of profound change in international relations and foreign policy. These developments call attention to the state of our knowledge about change processes in governmental decisionmaking. This essay reviews the contributions of several areas of conceptual literature and proposes a scheme for interpreting decisions in which a government decides to change policy direction. Foreign policy changes can be placed on a continuum indicati…
The Situational Imperative: A Predictive Model of Foreign Policy Behavior
Hudson, V. M., Hermann, C. F., Singer, E. The Situational Imperative: A Predictive Model of Foreign Policy Behavior. Cooperation and Conflict, XXIV, 1989, 117-139. Foreign policy behaviors, defined in terms of the intensity of affect and commitment an actor conveys to external recipients using various instruments of statecraft, are explained in terms of a situational model. The model represents an externally-defined predisposition that will influ…
Who Makes Foreign Policy Decisions and How: An Empirical Inquiry
Journal Article Who Makes Foreign Policy Decisions and How: An Empirical Inquiry Get access Margaret G. Hermann, Margaret G. Hermann Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles F. Hermann Charles F. Hermann Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 4, December 1989, Pages 361–387, https:…
Modeling the 1973 Soviet Decision to Support Egypt
We present a contingency model of Soviet foreign policy making that focuses on decision making in the Politburo. The model is designed around three questions and shows how the answers to these questions determine the likely nature of the decision the Politburo will reach at any point in time. The questions are (1) Whose positions on the Politburo are critical to making a decision? (2) What are the positions or preferences of those who count on th…
New directions in the study of foreign policy
xiii, 538 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
A Global Monitoring System: Appraising the Effects of Government on Human Dignity
Policy scientists can contribute to the democratic shaping and sharing of values by promoting and participating in a global monitoring system. Such a system would be designed to appraise policy formulation and execution by major governmental actors on a worldwide basis. The proposed system would be a private, transnational organization (or series of competing organizations) consisting of policy scientists from throughout the world who would use s…
What Decision Units Shape Foreign Policy: Individual, Group, Bureaucracy
Counterattack or Delay: Characteristics Influencing Decision Makers' Responses To the Simulation of an Unidentified Attack
This paper reports a secondary analysis of a series of simulation runs which explored the effects of a broad array of variables on a nation's response to an imminent strategic attack from an unidentified source. Seven variables appeared as important in determining whether a nation would counterattack or delay retaliation when given such a warning. These variables include availability of a weapon survivability system, the economic and force capabi…
The Adaptation of Foreign Policy Research: A Case Study of an Anti-Case Study Project
Journal Article The Adaptation of Foreign Policy Research: A Case Study of an Anti-Case Study Project Get access James N. Rosenau, James N. Rosenau Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Philip M. Burgess, Philip M. Burgess Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles F. Hermann Charles F. Hermann Ohio State University Search for othe…
International crises; insights from behavioral research.
Quantitative International Politics: Insights and Evidence
The Comparative Study of Foreign Policy
The study of the processes by which foreign policy is formed has been in the embarrassing position of falling between two academic chairs. On the one hand, students of international affairs have displayed considerable reluctance to delve into the domestic factors that distinguish one nation's policies from another's. On the other hand, scholars of comparative politics, with their knowledge of political institutions and processes, have rarely cons…
An Attempt to Simulate the Outbreak of World War I
Political games and simulations are models or representations of particular political systems and their associated processes. They are techniques for reproducing in a simplified form selected aspects of one system, A, in some independent system, A′. Games and simulations have a dynamic quality produced by the complex interaction of properties in the model. This feature enables them to generate states of the system that differ radically from those…
Changing Course: When Governments Choose to Redirect Foreign Policy
We are in a period of profound change in international relations and foreign policy. These developments call attention to the state of our knowledge about change processes in governmental decisionmaking. This essay reviews the contributions of several areas of conceptual literature and proposes a scheme for interpreting decisions in which a government decides to change policy direction. Foreign policy changes can be placed on a continuum indicati…
New directions in the study of foreign policy
xiii, 538 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
Who Makes Foreign Policy Decisions and How: An Empirical Inquiry
Journal Article Who Makes Foreign Policy Decisions and How: An Empirical Inquiry Get access Margaret G. Hermann, Margaret G. Hermann Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles F. Hermann Charles F. Hermann Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 4, December 1989, Pages 361–387, https:…
An Attempt to Simulate the Outbreak of World War I
Political games and simulations are models or representations of particular political systems and their associated processes. They are techniques for reproducing in a simplified form selected aspects of one system, A, in some independent system, A′. Games and simulations have a dynamic quality produced by the complex interaction of properties in the model. This feature enables them to generate states of the system that differ radically from those…
Modeling the 1973 Soviet Decision to Support Egypt
We present a contingency model of Soviet foreign policy making that focuses on decision making in the Politburo. The model is designed around three questions and shows how the answers to these questions determine the likely nature of the decision the Politburo will reach at any point in time. The questions are (1) Whose positions on the Politburo are critical to making a decision? (2) What are the positions or preferences of those who count on th…
The Comparative Study of Foreign Policy
The study of the processes by which foreign policy is formed has been in the embarrassing position of falling between two academic chairs. On the one hand, students of international affairs have displayed considerable reluctance to delve into the domestic factors that distinguish one nation's policies from another's. On the other hand, scholars of comparative politics, with their knowledge of political institutions and processes, have rarely cons…
A Global Monitoring System: Appraising the Effects of Government on Human Dignity
Policy scientists can contribute to the democratic shaping and sharing of values by promoting and participating in a global monitoring system. Such a system would be designed to appraise policy formulation and execution by major governmental actors on a worldwide basis. The proposed system would be a private, transnational organization (or series of competing organizations) consisting of policy scientists from throughout the world who would use s…
People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking: Insights from Comparative Case Studies
Journal Article People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking: Insights from Comparative Case Studies Get access Ryan K. Beasley, Ryan K. Beasley Baker University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Juliet Kaarbo, Juliet Kaarbo University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles F. Hermann, Charles F. Hermann Bush School, Texas A & M University Search for other …
Resolve, Accept, or Avoid: Effects of Group Conflict on Foreign Policy Decisions
The Adaptation of Foreign Policy Research: A Case Study of an Anti-Case Study Project
Journal Article The Adaptation of Foreign Policy Research: A Case Study of an Anti-Case Study Project Get access James N. Rosenau, James N. Rosenau Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Philip M. Burgess, Philip M. Burgess Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles F. Hermann Charles F. Hermann Ohio State University Search for othe…
Explaining Self-Defeating Foreign Policy Decisions: Interpreting Soviet Arms for Egypt in 1973 Through Process or Domestic Bargaining Models
How should we explain why a state sometimes adopts a foreign policy in one region that interferes with its concurrent policies elsewhere? In their article in the March 1989 issue of this Review , Stewart, Hermann and Hermann proposed a three-level process model of foreign policy to explain such Soviet behavior towards Egypt in 1973. The analysis has continuing interest because it interprets the puzzling behavior as a manifestation of general prob…
Counterattack or Delay: Characteristics Influencing Decision Makers' Responses To the Simulation of an Unidentified Attack
This paper reports a secondary analysis of a series of simulation runs which explored the effects of a broad array of variables on a nation's response to an imminent strategic attack from an unidentified source. Seven variables appeared as important in determining whether a nation would counterattack or delay retaliation when given such a warning. These variables include availability of a weapon survivability system, the economic and force capabi…
The Situational Imperative: A Predictive Model of Foreign Policy Behavior
Hudson, V. M., Hermann, C. F., Singer, E. The Situational Imperative: A Predictive Model of Foreign Policy Behavior. Cooperation and Conflict, XXIV, 1989, 117-139. Foreign policy behaviors, defined in terms of the intensity of affect and commitment an actor conveys to external recipients using various instruments of statecraft, are explained in terms of a situational model. The model represents an externally-defined predisposition that will influ…
What Decision Units Shape Foreign Policy: Individual, Group, Bureaucracy
An Attempt to Simulate the Outbreak of World War I
Political games and simulations are models or representations of particular political systems and their associated processes. They are techniques for reproducing in a simplified form selected aspects of one system, A, in some independent system, A′. Games and simulations have a dynamic quality produced by the complex interaction of properties in the model. This feature enables them to generate states of the system that differ radically from those…
The Comparative Study of Foreign Policy
The study of the processes by which foreign policy is formed has been in the embarrassing position of falling between two academic chairs. On the one hand, students of international affairs have displayed considerable reluctance to delve into the domestic factors that distinguish one nation's policies from another's. On the other hand, scholars of comparative politics, with their knowledge of political institutions and processes, have rarely cons…
Quantitative International Politics: Insights and Evidence
International crises; insights from behavioral research.
The Adaptation of Foreign Policy Research: A Case Study of an Anti-Case Study Project
Journal Article The Adaptation of Foreign Policy Research: A Case Study of an Anti-Case Study Project Get access James N. Rosenau, James N. Rosenau Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Philip M. Burgess, Philip M. Burgess Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles F. Hermann Charles F. Hermann Ohio State University Search for othe…
What Decision Units Shape Foreign Policy: Individual, Group, Bureaucracy
Counterattack or Delay: Characteristics Influencing Decision Makers' Responses To the Simulation of an Unidentified Attack
This paper reports a secondary analysis of a series of simulation runs which explored the effects of a broad array of variables on a nation's response to an imminent strategic attack from an unidentified source. Seven variables appeared as important in determining whether a nation would counterattack or delay retaliation when given such a warning. These variables include availability of a weapon survivability system, the economic and force capabi…
A Global Monitoring System: Appraising the Effects of Government on Human Dignity
Policy scientists can contribute to the democratic shaping and sharing of values by promoting and participating in a global monitoring system. Such a system would be designed to appraise policy formulation and execution by major governmental actors on a worldwide basis. The proposed system would be a private, transnational organization (or series of competing organizations) consisting of policy scientists from throughout the world who would use s…
New directions in the study of foreign policy
xiii, 538 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
The Situational Imperative: A Predictive Model of Foreign Policy Behavior
Hudson, V. M., Hermann, C. F., Singer, E. The Situational Imperative: A Predictive Model of Foreign Policy Behavior. Cooperation and Conflict, XXIV, 1989, 117-139. Foreign policy behaviors, defined in terms of the intensity of affect and commitment an actor conveys to external recipients using various instruments of statecraft, are explained in terms of a situational model. The model represents an externally-defined predisposition that will influ…
Who Makes Foreign Policy Decisions and How: An Empirical Inquiry
Journal Article Who Makes Foreign Policy Decisions and How: An Empirical Inquiry Get access Margaret G. Hermann, Margaret G. Hermann Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles F. Hermann Charles F. Hermann Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Studies Quarterly, Volume 33, Issue 4, December 1989, Pages 361–387, https:…
Modeling the 1973 Soviet Decision to Support Egypt
We present a contingency model of Soviet foreign policy making that focuses on decision making in the Politburo. The model is designed around three questions and shows how the answers to these questions determine the likely nature of the decision the Politburo will reach at any point in time. The questions are (1) Whose positions on the Politburo are critical to making a decision? (2) What are the positions or preferences of those who count on th…
Changing Course: When Governments Choose to Redirect Foreign Policy
We are in a period of profound change in international relations and foreign policy. These developments call attention to the state of our knowledge about change processes in governmental decisionmaking. This essay reviews the contributions of several areas of conceptual literature and proposes a scheme for interpreting decisions in which a government decides to change policy direction. Foreign policy changes can be placed on a continuum indicati…
Explaining Self-Defeating Foreign Policy Decisions: Interpreting Soviet Arms for Egypt in 1973 Through Process or Domestic Bargaining Models
How should we explain why a state sometimes adopts a foreign policy in one region that interferes with its concurrent policies elsewhere? In their article in the March 1989 issue of this Review , Stewart, Hermann and Hermann proposed a three-level process model of foreign policy to explain such Soviet behavior towards Egypt in 1973. The analysis has continuing interest because it interprets the puzzling behavior as a manifestation of general prob…
Problem Representation in Foreign Policy Decision-Making
Previous studies of foreign policy decision making have largely focused on the choice among specified options rather than the prior question of how the options were specified in the first place. Such 'problem representation' is the focus of this volume. How do the game theorists' options and utilities come about? Concretely, for example, how and why in the Cuban missile crisis were blockade, air strike, and invasion chosen as options? To answer s…
Problem Identification in Sequential Policy Decision Making: The Re-representation of Problems
It is our contention that most foreign policy problems continue over an extended period of time and that policy makers often find themselves returning again and again to the task of coping with an issue they have addressed before. Problems that have been addressed on a number of previous occasions will present a different decision task than those newly faced. Our goal here is to continue our analysis of sequential decision making in foreign polic…
People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking: Insights from Comparative Case Studies
Journal Article People and Processes in Foreign Policymaking: Insights from Comparative Case Studies Get access Ryan K. Beasley, Ryan K. Beasley Baker University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Juliet Kaarbo, Juliet Kaarbo University of Kansas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Charles F. Hermann, Charles F. Hermann Bush School, Texas A & M University Search for other …
Resolve, Accept, or Avoid: Effects of Group Conflict on Foreign Policy Decisions
Assessing a Mediated Learning Joint Television Course: Foreign Policy Problem Management in the First Bush Administration1
This article reports on a multimedia television course taught jointly at two universities and focusing on foreign policy problem management in the administration of George H. W. Bush. The course centered on appearances by President Bush and his major foreign policy team members, discussing in a case study format, the major foreign policy challenges of the administration. The theoretical framework of the course is outlined, the technological aspec…
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