Designing Artificial Intelligence/International Relations (AI/IR) Platform: Foreign Policy Decision-Making Simulation in ASEAN Negotiation

The growing interest in artificial intelligence (AI) application into foreign policy decision making and negotiation among scholars and policy-makers demonstrates an inherent transition of International Relations both as a field and practice into the so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution. This study examines the application of AI in providing a computerized decision-making support system and how the production of such a system would assist both practitioners and learners of International Relations in understanding the state's foreign policy decision making process and strategies during diplomatic negotiations. This study offers a design of AI/IR systems which adopts the Expert System framework and employs the strategy of Forward Chaining. This study provides a framework for developing a rule-based system to identify possible foreign policy alternatives and their consequences by adopting the Rational Choice model as the basis of knowledge engineering. Given the remarkable growth of the Southeast Asia region in recent years, this study is particularly interested in developing a computerized decision-making system that can promptly respond to the region's dynamics.