The Influence of Groups in Foreign Policy Formulation: Analysis of Israel’s Policy on Iran’s Nuclear Agreement

Tisa Larasati, I. Gede Wahyu Wicaksana

2018

Abstract

As a critical actor in the issue of Iran’s nuclear deal, Israel’s foreign policy is rather different from many others’: Israel disagrees with both Iran’s nuclear deal and their nuclear development in general. Israel’s foreign policy, then, becomes interesting to discuss, especially by analyzing the factors that influence the decision making of their policy. In this article, therational policy model derived from the group level of analysis is used to analyze and elaborate the decision making process of Israel’s foreign policy toward Iran’s nuclear deal. This article argues that the result of Israel’s decision making process for their foreign policy is influeced by group actors surrounding Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu which are the Inner Cabinet and the Security Cabinet. This article finds that even though there is indeed influence from group actors in the decision making process of Israel’s foreign policy, said influence is rather complementary because decisions issued by the group actors heavily depend on several particular factors that cannot be explained by the group level of analysis.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Larasati T. and Wicaksana I. (2018). The Influence of Groups in Foreign Policy Formulation: Analysis of Israel’s Policy on Iran’s Nuclear Agreement. In Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR, ISBN 978-989-758-493-0, pages 602-608. DOI: 10.5220/0010280900002309

in Bibtex Style

@conference{acir18,
author={Tisa Larasati and I. Gede Wahyu Wicaksana},
title={The Influence of Groups in Foreign Policy Formulation: Analysis of Israel’s Policy on Iran’s Nuclear Agreement},
booktitle={Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,},
year={2018},
pages={602-608},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010280900002309},
isbn={978-989-758-493-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of Airlangga Conference on International Relations - Volume 1: ACIR,
TI - The Influence of Groups in Foreign Policy Formulation: Analysis of Israel’s Policy on Iran’s Nuclear Agreement
SN - 978-989-758-493-0
AU - Larasati T.
AU - Wicaksana I.
PY - 2018
SP - 602
EP - 608
DO - 10.5220/0010280900002309