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What is Margaret Hermann main conclusion in her 1980 article “Explaining Foreign Policy Behaviour Using the Personal Characteristics of Political Leaders”, and how do we understand this in the context of the individual level of foreign policy analysis?
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Section B. (4) What is Margaret Hermann main conclusion in her 1980 article "Explaining Foreign Policy Behaviour Using the Personal Characteristics of Political Leaders", and how do we understand this in the context of the individual level of foreign policy analysis? Margaret Hermann's main conclusion in her 1980 article "Explaining Foreign Policy Behaviour Using the Personal Characteristics of Political Leaders", is that the personal characteristics and orientations of foreign affairs of political leaders are important. However, one needs to be cognizant of the fact that personal characteristics is only a first step in the process of trying to explain why governments do certain things in the foreign policy arena. Moreover, individual actions are constrained by political, social, bureaucratic, environmental and context. Hence this limits the importance of individuals' personal characteristic. What is important is the situation in which individual characteristics are important. In order to completely understand decision...
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