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A critical analysis of the US Agenda towards a Sino-American arms control agreement within the context of evidence-based policymaking

Meyer, W. (2022) A critical analysis of the US Agenda towards a Sino-American arms control agreement within the context of evidence-based policymaking.

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Abstract:The research is concerned with the question: In how far is the American agenda of pursuing a nuclear arms control agreement with China in line with evidence-based policymaking? In a time of “titanic shifts […] in the international system” (Scheinmann, 2022), an assertive China pressures the global hegemony of the United States. Recently, China began to modernize and extend its nuclear arsenal much to the concern of Washington. As such, the US foreign policy apparatus aims for a Sino-American nuclear arms control agreement. At the same time, the Biden administration outlines the use of evidence-based policymaking. Evidence-based policymaking itself can be defined as an approach which “helps people to make well informed decisions about policies, programs and projects by putting the best available evidence from research at the heart of policy development” (Davies, 2004, p.2). The thesis aims to investigate the application of evidence-based policymaking in the aforementioned concrete policy example. The application of pillars, after Spokojny and Scherer (2021), in this context is central for this research. The thesis finds that the agenda is only somewhat in line with evidence-based policymaking, verifying only one pillar: the emphasis on fact finding.
Item Type:Essay (Bachelor)
Faculty:BMS: Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences
Subject:88 social and public administration, 89 political science
Programme:Management Society and Technology BSc (56654)
Link to this item:https://purl.utwente.nl/essays/91678
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