Risk and Presidential Decision-Making: The Emergence of Foreign Policy Crises

ISBN-13: 9780367596606 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 232 str.

Trenta Luca

Opis

The 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. It aims at evaluating the assessment that the Cold War world represented a certain, clear and secure world that had nothing to do with the uncertain, unpredictable and ri

Spis treści

Introduction: Risk and the Cold War/post-Cold War divide  Chapter 1: Risk in International Relations and foreign policy  Chapter 2: A new framework: risk vs. risk trade-offs, crises and International Relations Chapter 3: ‘I should have said that we don’t care:’ the Kennedy Administration and Cuba, 1961-1962  Chapter 4: ‘We are sticking with the Shah: the Carter Administration and Iran, 1977-1979  Chapter 5: ‘Why is this happening and we are not doing anything?’ The Clinton Administration and the risky road to Srebrenica, 1992-1995  Conclusion

O autorze

Luca Trenta holds a PhD from the School of Government and International Affairs, Durham University. He is a Lecturer in International Relations in the Department of Political and Cultural Studies, Swansea University.