The foreign policy process is
a. stable. Virtually all scholars realize that it changes very little from country to country
and from time to time.
b. well-defined. There is widespread agreement about what the steps in the process are,
and about how they must be followed. Most policymakers follow these steps
faithfully.
c. dynamic. Constant change is a reality of the foreign policy process.
d. None of the above statements is true.
Question 2
Which of the following describes part of the problem that helped make the Cuban Missile Crisis so dangerous?
a. States were behaving as unitary actors instead of taking into account the will of the people.
b. The United States was pressured by allies to act aggressively for balance-of-power reasons.
c. Those that should have only been agents of the state were behaving inappropriately as actors.
d. The Soviet Union was a failed state and thus was unable to control the desires of its own military apparatus.
e. Those that should have only been actors were behaving inappropriately as agents of the state.