U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes

Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their...
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Author: Stephen G. Walker
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U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes by Walker, Stephen G.

U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes

CHF 49.85

U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes

CHF 49.85
Author: Stephen G. Walker
Format: Paperback
Language: English

Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions made in the realm of US foreign policy--with a special focus on national security--over the past half century in order to create a roadmap of the decision process and a guide to better foreign policy decision-making in the increasingly complex context of 21st century international relations.

Mistakes are analyzed in two general categories--ones of omission and ones of commission within the context of perceived threats and opportunities. Within this framework, the authors discuss how past scholarship has addressed these questions and argue that this research has not explicitly identified a vantage point around which the answers to these questions revolve. They propose game theory models of complex adaptive systems for minimizing bad decisions and apply them to test cases in the Middle East and Asia.



Author: Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici
Publisher: Stanford Security Studies
Published: 08/15/2011
Pages: 360
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780804774994


Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2013
Reference and Research Bk News 12/01/2011 pg. 115

About the Author
Stephen G. Walker is Professor Emeritus in the School of Politics and Global Studies at Arizona State University. Akan Malici is Associate Professor at Furman University.


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