Risk And Presidential Decision Making

Author : Luca Trenta
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317521259

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Risk and Presidential Decision-making by Luca Trenta Pdf

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.

Author : Roger B. Porter
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : United States
ISBN : OCLC:1036825512

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Presidential Decision Making by Roger B. Porter Pdf

Author : Trenta Luca
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317521266

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Risk and Presidential Decision-making by Trenta Luca Pdf

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.

Author : Rees, Morgan
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781529215922

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Ideas and the Use of Force in American Foreign Policy by Rees, Morgan Pdf

The decision to mount an armed foreign intervention is one of the most consequential that a US president can take. This book sets out to explain why and when presidents choose to use force. The book examines decisions to use force throughout the post-Cold War period, via flashpoints including the Balkans, the ‘War on Terror’ and the Middle East. It develops new explanations for variation in the use of force in US foreign policy by theorizing and demonstrating the effects of the displacement and repression of ideas within and across different US presidential administrations, from George H.W. Bush to Donald Trump. For students, scholars and anyone with an interest in international relations and global security, this book is an original perspective on a defining issue of recent decades.

Author : Thomas Knecht
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271056685

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Paying Attention to Foreign Affairs by Thomas Knecht Pdf

Do American presidents consider public opinion when making foreign policy decisions? In a democracy, it is generally assumed that citizen preferences inform public policy. For a variety of reasons, however, foreign policy has always posed a difficult challenge for democratic governance. In Paying Attention to Foreign Affairs, Thomas Knecht offers new insights into the relationship between public opinion and U.S. foreign policy. He does so by shifting our focus away from the opinions that Americans hold and toward the issues that grab the public’s attention. Policy making under the glare of public scrutiny differs from policy making when no one is looking. As public interest in foreign policy increases, the political stakes also rise. A highly attentive public can then force presidents to choose foreign policies that are less politically risky but usually less effective. By tracking the ebb and flow of public attention to foreign policy, this book offers a method of predicting when presidents are likely to lead, follow, or simply ignore the American public.

Author : Rose McDermott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 21 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-12-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139468893

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Presidential Leadership, Illness, and Decision Making by Rose McDermott Pdf

Examines the impact of medical and psychological illness on foreign policy decision making. Illness provides specific, predictable, and recognizable shifts in attention, time perspective, cognitive capacity, judgment, and emotion, which systematically affect impaired leaders. In particular, this book discusses the ways in which processes related to aging, physical and psychological illness, and addiction influence decision making. This book provides detailed analysis of four cases among the American presidency. Woodrow Wilson's October 1919 stroke affected his behavior during the Senate fight over ratifying the League of Nations. Franklin Roosevelt's severe coronary disease influenced his decisions concerning the conduct of war in the Pacific from 1943–1945 in particular. John Kennedy's illnesses and treatments altered his behavior at the 1961 Vienna conference with Soviet Premier Khrushchev. And Nixon's psychological impairments biased his decisions regarding the covert bombing of Cambodia in 1969–1970.

Author : Rose McDermott
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472087878

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Risk-Taking in International Politics by Rose McDermott Pdf

Discusses the way leaders deal with risk in making foreign policy decisions

Author : Constantine J. Spiliotes
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1585441422

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Vicious Cycle by Constantine J. Spiliotes Pdf

Annotation. American presidents enter office ready to enact a policy-making agenda that will satisfy partisan interests and facilitate reelection to a second term. Economic circumstances, however, may catch presidents in a vicious cycle of economic growth and inflation versus recession and unemployment. Faced with responsibility for the nation's economic health, presidents are often forced to make tradeoffs between pursuing political objectives and stabilizing the economy. Vicious Cycle provides a theoretical framework for explaining how presidents pursue partisan and electoral objectives in office while simultaneously managing the nation's economy. With an approach that bridges several literatures in presidential studies and political economy, Constantine J. Spiliotes develops an econometric model of postwar presidential decision making in the American political economy and examines its relationship to economic decision making in four presidencies. These extensively documented case studies -- of presidents Eisenhower, Johnson, Carter, and Reagan -- offer variation across several analytic dimensions: temporal, partisan, electoral, and institutional. Spiliotes concludes that tradeoffs between political objectives and institutional responsibility are driven by a transformation in the nature of the American presidency, from an office in which decision making is anchored in partisan accountability to one constrained by the chief executive's institutional mission. Spiliotes's work contributes to a fuller understanding of the presidency and political economy and the methodologies that elucidate them.

Author : Richard M. Pious
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742563391

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Why Presidents Fail by Richard M. Pious Pdf

Presidents are surrounded by political strategists and White House counsel who presumably know enough to avoid making the same mistakes as their predecessors. Why, then, do the same kinds of presidential failures occur over and over again? Why Presidents Fail answers this question by examining presidential fiascos, quagmires, and risky business-the kind of failure that led President Kennedy to groan after the Bay of Pigs invasion, 'How could I have been so stupid?' In this book, Richard M. Pious looks at nine cases that have become defining events in presidencies from Dwight D. Eisenhower and the U-2 Flights to George W. Bush and Iraqi WMDs. He uses these cases to draw generalizations about presidential power, authority, rationality, and legitimacy. And he raises questions about the limits of presidential decision-making, many of which fly in the face of the conventional wisdom about the modern presidency.

Author : Rose McDermott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-12-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521882729

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Presidential Leadership, Illness, and Decision Making by Rose McDermott Pdf

This book is about how illness affects the behavior of American presidents. It discusses four cases in American history of presidential decision making being affected by illness. The main purpose of this book is to show that health problems have a bigger impact on important political decisions than people may have realized. This book differs from the competition because it focuses primarily on foreign policy, where a president has greater freedom of authority, and also features detailed analysis of historical case studies.

Author : Alexander L George
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1980-02-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UCAL:B4916296

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Presidential Decisionmaking In Foreign Policy by Alexander L George Pdf

0813325919 Presidential Personality and Performance

Author : Janine A. Davidson,Emerson T. Brooking,Benjamin J. Fernandes
Publisher : Council on Foreign Relations
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-11-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780876096925

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Mending the Broken Dialogue by Janine A. Davidson,Emerson T. Brooking,Benjamin J. Fernandes Pdf

Although friction often frustrates civil-military relations, it is an inevitable and important part of the policymaking process. The system breaks down when there is too much friction or too little: when civilian and military leaders descend into open conflict or when one side acquiesces to the other and embraces groupthink. The system works best when both sides in the civil-military dialogue are able to speak candidly in an environment that fosters empathy and empowerment.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Environmental health
ISBN : OCLC:1016168600

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Risk Assessment and Risk Management in Regulatory Decision-making by Anonim Pdf

Author : Rees, Morgan
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9781529215908

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Ideas and the Use of Force in American Foreign Policy by Rees, Morgan Pdf

Examining the post-Cold War period, this book sets out to explain why and when US presidents choose to use force. It develops new explanations for variation in the use of force in US foreign policy by theorizing and demonstrating the effects of the displacement and repression of ideas within and across different US Presidential administrations.

Author : George C. Edwards,Steven A. Shull,Norman C. Thomas
Publisher : Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B4967617

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The Presidency and Public Policy Making by George C. Edwards,Steven A. Shull,Norman C. Thomas Pdf

The premise behind this book is that policy making provides a useful perspective for studying the presidency, perhaps the most important and least understood policy-making institution in the United States. The eleven essays focus on diverse aspects of presidential policy making, providing insights on the presidency and its relationship to other policy-making actors and institutions. Major topics addressed include the environment of presidential policy making and the constraints it places on the chief executive; relationships with those outside the executive branch that are central to presidential policy making; attempts to lead the public and Congress; presidential decision making; and administration or implementation of policies in the executive branch, a topic that has received limited attention in the literature on the presidency.