Modern models and old policy : an application of the Spanier-Uslaner foreign policy decision-making models to American Policy toward France, 1793-1800

This thesis has applied three modern American foreign policy decision-making models---borrowed from John Spanier and Eric M. Uslaner, How American Foreien Policy Is Made---to the foreign policy of the United States toward France in the period 1793-1800.The intent of the study was to determine the validity of the models, to offer explanations for any contradictions between the models and the test case, and to provide some insights into early American foreign policy decision-making.