Allison's Models and Iraq Invasion

Introduction

The paper weights each of Graham T. Allison's three conceptual models against the decision to go to war in Iraq in 2003 in order to evaluate the effectiveness of the models. The paper explains the rational policy model, the organizational processes model and the bureaucratic politics model (James, pp 1-3). The paper concludes that because the war is a subject of such recent history, and a variety of debates exist as to its actual cause, the conceptual models prove extremely useful in organizing and evaluating many of the war's proposed motivations. The writer of the paper ...