Accession Number:

ADA021243

Title:

International Behavior Analysis: The Operationalization Task

Descriptive Note:

Semi-annual technical rept. 1 Aug 1975-31 Jan 1976

Corporate Author:

MARYLAND UNIV COLLEGE PARK DEPT OF GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS

Personal Author(s):

• Hopple, Gerald W.
• Wilkenfeld, Jonathan
• Andriole, Stephen J.

Report Date:

1976-02-15

Pagination or Media Count:

61.0

Abstract:

A comprehensive, social scientific framework for analyzing foreign policy behavior has been constructed and refined. Interrelationships between certain factors variables have been indicated within the contexts of international source and decision-making behavior and, moreover, within the contexts of different situations and nations. Each factor is being transformed into an actual variable. Data are assembled for the five major sets of factors which are important for both source analysis and process analysis psychological, political, societal, interstate, and global. Nations have been classified on the basis of three dimensions economics, governmental, and capability. Data have already been assembled for each of the dimensions, generating 27 variables for 56 nations. Events are classified on the basis of six dimensions spatial, relational, temporal, situational, substantial, and behavioral.

Descriptors:

• *INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• *NATIONS
• AGREEMENTS
• DECISION MAKING
• ECONOMICS
• FOREIGN POLICY
• FRICTION
• NEGOTIATIONS
• PREDICTIONS
• PROBABILITY
• SOCIOLOGY
• TENSION

Subject Categories:

• Government and Political Science

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE