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Risk and presidential decision-making : the emergence of foreign policy crises
Yazar:
Trenta, Luca. author
ISBN:
9781138854246

9781315721194
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Fiziksel Tanımlama:
x, 256 pages ; 24 cm.
Seri:
Routledge studies in US foreign policy
İçerik:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: risk and the Cold War/post-Cold War divide -- 1 Risk in International Relations and foreign policy -- Risk in the post-Cold War world: from sociology to International Relations -- Risk and decision-making: the laboratory of decision theory and the world of foreign policy -- Conclusion -- 2 A new framework: risk vs. risk trade-offs, crises and International Relations -- Risk, uncertainty and risk management: a foreign policy perspective -- Uncertainty, risk and risk management: towards operational definitions. Presidential decision-making and 'risk vs. risk trade-offs' -- The risk vs. risk trade-off framework and presidential decision-making in foreign policy: connections and contributions -- Countervailing risks, uncertainty and foreign policy crises -- Rethinking the Cold War/post-Cold War divide -- 3 'I should have said that we don't care:' the Kennedy Administration and Cuba, 1961-1962 -- The Eisenhower Administration, American decline and 'their man' in Havana -- The Kennedy Administration and Cuba: from the campaign trail to the Missile Crisis -- Conclusion. 4 'We are sticking with the Shah': the Carter Administration and Iran, 1977-1979 -- Nixon to Ford: the new Cold War, the loss of certainties and the US man in Tehran -- Iranian revolution and American risk management: from early commitments to the final tragedy -- Conclusion -- 5 'Why is this happening and we are not doing anything?': the Clinton Administration and the risky road to Srebrenica, 1992-1995 -- The new game: the end of the Cold War and George H.W. Bush's legacy -- Clinton and Bosnia: a candidate's freebie, a president's nightmare -- Conclusion -- Conclusion. Risk and risk management in foreign policy -- Propositions and foreign policy crises -- Risk, uncertainty and risk management: rethinking sociological approaches and decision theory -- Risk, uncertainty and risk management: crisis, foreign policy decision-making and 'risk-superior' moves -- Continuity for continuity's sake? -- Bibliography -- Index.
Özet:
This book aims at gauging whether the nature of US foreign policy decision-making has changed after the Cold War as radically as a large body of literature seems to suggest, and develops a new framework to interpret presidential decision-making in foreign policy. It locates the study of risk in US foreign policy in a wider intellectual landscape that draws on contemporary debates in historiography, international relations and Presidential studies. Based on developments in the health and environment literature, the book identifies the President as the ultimate risk-manager, demonstrating how a President is called to perform a delicate balancing act between risks on the domestic/political side and risks on the strategic/international side. Every decision represents a ‘risk vs. risk trade-off, ’ in which the management of one ‘target risk’ leads to the development ‘countervailing risks.’ The book applies this framework to the study three major crises in US foreign policy: the Cuban Missile Crisis, the seizure of the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979, and the massacre at Srebrenica in 1995. Each case-study results from substantial archival research and over twenty interviews with policymakers and academics, including former President Jimmy Carter and former Senator Bob Dole. This book is ideal for postgraduate researchers and academics in US foreign policy, foreign policy decision-making and the US Presidency as well as Departments and Institutes dealing with the study of risk in the social sciences. The case studies will also be of great use to undergraduate students.
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