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Propositional Analysis, Policy Creation, And Complex Environments In The United States' 2009 Afghanistan-Pakistan Policy, Cris Shackelford
Propositional Analysis, Policy Creation, And Complex Environments In The United States' 2009 Afghanistan-Pakistan Policy, Cris Shackelford
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Military conflicts have become nonlinear and the interrelated political and socio-economic changes within these conflicts have created new challenges for American policymakers. A tool called Wallis' Propositional Analysis (PA) suggests a new paradigm that includes thinking about complexity and robustness/systemicity in a policy. The purpose of this single case study was to determine how the PA paradigm adds heuristic value to complex policy decision-making. A backdrop of Wallerstein's complexity theory and complex adaptive systems (CAS) guided this study. This study examined policy statements from the Obama administration on the Afghanistan and Pakistan conflicts in late December 2009. Data were coded …