Foreign Policy Analysis and the Making of Plan Colombia

María Catalina Monroy, Fabio Sánchez

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Resumen

This article, through a Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA) perspective, analyses the only long-term foreign policy decision ever made in Colombia. Since FPA portrays a theory of human political choice to analyse foreign policy behaviour, this analysis will specifically focus on Plan Colombia’s decision-makers as a case study using empirical examples. The purpose is to understand the specificity of this foreign policy decision-making process from an unexplored perspective, namely Groupthink theory. Although Janis has asserted that the process would negatively affect decision-making quality, this article contradicts this assumption based on both the boundaries and opportunities encountered when applying mainstream FPA to a non-US case study. As such, a major challenge remains when it comes to judging quality and, correspondingly, expecting certain outcomes. This article demonstrates that group cohesiveness and concurrence-seeking tendencies may be useful for explaining successful foreign policy decision outcomes.

Idioma originalInglés estadounidense
Páginas (desde-hasta)245-271
Número de páginas27
PublicaciónGlobal Society
Volumen31
N.º2
DOI
EstadoPublicada - abr. 3 2017
Publicado de forma externa

Áreas temáticas de ASJC Scopus

  • Cambio global y planetario
  • Geografía, planificación y desarrollo

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