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| Abstract: This “excellent summary of [Steinbruner’s] theory, which also goes a long way toward explaining the
separate status of the cognitive paradigm” distinguishes rigorously and systematically among his analytic,
cybernetic, and cognitive paradigms of decision making. It is organized around three tables, forming the
skeleton of its argument, which respectively distill (1) the basic postulates of the decisional paradigms,
(2) their paradigmatic patterns of evaluation and learning, and (3) what they say about cognitive
styles within organizations. (Quotation from Ernst B. Haas, “Collective Learning: Some Theoretical
Speculations,” in George W. Breslauer and Philip E. Tetlock [eds.], Learning in U.S. and Soviet
Foreign Policy [Boulder, Colo.: Westview, 1991], p. 99, n. 10.)
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| Suggested citation for this webpage: Robert M. Cutler, “[Decision Making and International Relations:] The Cybernetic Theory Reconsidered,” Michigan Journal of Political Science 1, no. 2 (Fall 1981): 57–63, available at ⟨http://www.robertcutler.org/ar81mjp.htm⟩, accessed 29 August 2008 . |
Dr. Robert M. Cutler [ website — email ] was educated at MIT and The University of Michigan, where he earned a Ph.D. in Political Science, and has specialized and consulted in the international affairs of Europe, Russia, and Eurasia since the late 1970s. He has held research and teaching positions at major universities in the United States, Canada, France, Switzerland, and Russia, and contributed to leading policy reviews and academic journals as well as the print and electronic mass media in three languages.
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