Cognitivism, prospect theory, and foreign policy change : a comparative analysis of the politics of counterinsurgency in Malaya and Afghanistan/
Eszter Simon
- 2015
This article uses a comparative approach contrasting America's Afghanistan policy from the outbreak of the insurgency in2003-2014 with British policy against communist insurgents in Malaya between 1948-1954. The anlysis of government policy making in Malaya holds some important political lessons for American leaders today despite differences between insurgencies in Afghnistan and British Malaya.
MALAYA -- COUNTERINSURGENCY -- FOREIGN POLICY AFGHANISTAN UNITED STATES UNITED KINGDOM