Power Over Rationality: The Bush Administration and the Gulf
Crisis.The argument advanced in this slim, unfocused un·fo·cused
also un·fo·cussed 1. Not brought into focus: an unfocused lens.
2. and sometimes redundant text suggests that very powerful
states can occasionally afford not to be rational. Hybel
contends that the emphasis of realists on the international
structure is somewhat misplaced mis·place tr.v. mis·placed,
mis·plac·ing, mis·plac·es a. To put into a wrong place: misplace
punctuation in a sentence. b. because decision-makers approach
the world with different beliefs, values and intellectual
capabilities. Consequently, their perceptions of reality, their
perceptions of the structures and constraints, and what sorts of
solutions they devise will differ. Hybel then seeks to construct
a topology of decision-making where the classic rational actor
stands at the farthest extreme of the continuum. Closest to
rationality is attribution theory Attribution theory is a social
psychology theory developed b