Decision-Making Approach as a Corrective to State-Centric and System-Centric Theories: Reorienting Political Analysis from Structures to Choices Introduction The Decision-Making Approach emerged in the mid-twentieth century as a significant methodological and theoretical intervention in the study of politics and international relations. Dissatisfied with explanations that treated states as unitary actors or reduced political outcomes to … Continue reading To what extent does the Decision-Making Approach provide a corrective to the state-centric and system-centric assumptions of traditional theories of politics and international relations?