U.S. FOREIGN POLICYMAKING DURING PREPARATION AND WAGING PERSIAN GULF WAR (1989-1991)
The article considers internal debates and discussions in the USA on the countrys policy in the Middle East during the specified period. The increased role of not-governmental actors (mass media, think tanks, lobby groups) in making foreign policy decisions is shown. As a result the author concludes that the choice of the international crises solution pattern in the future was exemplified in the Persian Gulf War.