Decision-making During International Crises
Author | : Jonathan M. Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Jonathan M. Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Education |
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Author | : Glenn Herald Snyder |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2016-04-19 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9780691630410 |
How do nations act in a crisis? This book seeks to answer that question both theoretically and historically. It tests and synthesizes theories of political behavior by comparing them with the historical record. The authors apply theories of bargaining, game theory, information processing, decision-making, and international systems to case histories of sixteen crises that occurred during a seventy-five year period. The result is a revision and integration of diverse concepts and the development of a new empirical theory of international conflict. Originally published in 1978. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author | : Ásthildur Elva Bernhardsdóttir |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 207 |
Release | : 2015-08-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3319207148 |
This book provides an analysis on the impact of culture on crisis management, exploring how different cultural types are reflected in crisis-related decision making patterns. Providing an interdisciplinary and international perspective with a rich research and practical outlook, this work is an important contribution to the field of crisis management and decision making. Offering essential understanding to how countries, organizations, groups and individuals prepare for and respond to crises thus combining research across several disciplines, offering theoretical development, empirical testing and reporting on the testing of a large number of hypotheses across several frameworks. The novelty of this book lies in its presentation of the quantitative testing of the relationship between cultural theory and crisis management, drawing on data from cases that cross continents and crises types. The book also includes a review of cases from South Korea and suggests a number of ways in which practitioners at various levels of government can prepare their organizations to cope better with the introduction of cultural bias into the decision making process. Those with an interest in risk management, disaster management and crisis management will value this pioneering work as it reveals the influence of cultural bias in decision making processes. This work offers important insights for practice as well as for theory-building, scholars and practitioners of public administration, management, political, and international relations, organizational, social and cultural psychology, amongst others, will all gain from reading this work.
Author | : Patrick J. Haney |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2010-08-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472027115 |
Presidents often assemble ad hoc groups of advisers to help them make decisions during foreign policy crises. These advisers may include the holders of the traditional foreign policy positions--secretaries of state and defense--as well as others from within and without the executive branch. It has never been clear what role these groups play in the development of policy. In this landmark study, Patrick Haney examines how these crisis decision groups were structured and how they performed the tasks of providing information, advice, and analysis to the president. From this, Haney investigates the links between a president's crisis management structure and the decision-making process that took place during a foreign policy crisis. Haney employs case studies to examine the different ways presidents from Truman through Bush used crisis decision-making groups to help manage foreign policy crises. He looks at the role of these groups in handling the Berlin blockade in 1948, the Suez Crisis in 1956, the Tet offensive in 1968, the Yom Kippur War in 1973, and the Panama invasion in 1989, among other crises. He extends our understanding of the organization, management and behavior of the decision-making groups presidents assemble during foreign policy crises. This book will appeal to scholars of the American presidency and American foreign policy. Patrick Haney is Assistant Professor of Political Science, Miami University of Ohio.
Author | : Jonathan Mark Roberts |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1986 |
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Author | : Sophie Sauvagnargues |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 218 |
Release | : 2018-10-08 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 1119557828 |
This book presents concepts and methods for optimal training for decision making in crisis situations. After presenting some general concepts of decision-making during crisis situations, it presents various innovations for optimal training, such as serious games, scenario design, adapted animation of crisis exercises, observation and debriefing of exercises related to pedagogical objectives.
Author | : Radhika Withana |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2008-07-31 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9047431790 |
This volume addresses the question as to where international law fits into the making and implementation of foreign policy during an international crisis in which a State is considering and / or may actually use force. Empirical literature on the law-State behaviour relationship during international crises has not been able to answer this question adequately. The limitations of existing empirical literature are identified as stemming from the limitations of existing positivist, realist and functionalist theoretical explanations of the law-State behaviour relationship. These theoretical approaches, which underpin existing empirical literature on international crises, assume that international law matches what is referred to in this book as its ‘rule-book’ image. This is the notion of international law as a finite set of objective, politically neutral, rules that can be applied so as to distinguish objectively between legal and illegal action. The rule-book image of international law does not match reality, but the assumption that it is true underpins both theoretical literature and references to international law in political rhetoric. The rule-book image and the reality of international law have been reconciled within the theory of International law as Ideology (ILI) as developed by Shirley Scott. This book hypothesises that an ILI perspective offers a better explanation of the law-State behaviour relationship during international crises than rival explanations grounded in positivism, realism or functionalism. Four case studies of State behaviour—of the US, the Soviet Union and the PRC during the Korean War (1950-1953), of the US and UK during the Suez crisis (1956), of the US and the Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis (1962) and of the US and an alliance of Latin American States during the Dominican Republic crisis (1965)—are used to test the hypothesis. The findings confirm the greater explanatory efficacy of ILI and demonstrate that the significance of international law to foreign policy decision-making during international crises is more than that of deterring the use of force as is assumed by rival theoretical approaches grounded in a rule-book image of international law. International law is shown to serve as a vehicle for inter-State competition during international crises.
Author | : Gilbert R. Winham |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 2020-01-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0429721838 |
A comprehensive overview of the state of crisis management in international affairs, this book focuses primarily on the U.S.-USSR relationship. For most of the postwar period, the U.S. superiority in nuclear weapons shaped the political structure within which international crises occurred. This edge began to deteriorate by the late 1970s, leading to a new and potentially more dangerous structure within which the superpower rivalry is now conducted. Arguing that the shifting nuclear balance has created a new dimension for crisis management, the contributors analyze such issues as the informal norms of diplomatic behavior that have evolved during the extended superpower rivalry, the tendency of both superpowers to engage in activities that progressively reduce crisis stability, and various concrete measures such as risk reduction centers that might enhance the current system for crisis management. The book also includes case studies of crisis management among non-superpowers. Taken together, these papers address the important question of how human control can be maximized in situations of international crisis.
Author | : Daniel Frei |
Publisher | : Greenwood-Heinemann Publishing |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 1978 |
Genre | : Political Science |
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Author | : Gregory Roy Cowan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : International relations |
ISBN | : 9781109926736 |
In the field of foreign policy analysis, there is a long history of research examining factors that impact decision making in conflicts, wars, and crises. The following research project is an attempt to add to this body of knowledge. This dissertation research examined factors affecting leaders' decision making during international crises. Specifically, a statistical analysis was conducted to examine information from the International Crisis Behavior Project, which contains data regarding international crises from 1918 to 2003. The key variable examined was decision maker stress. Statistical analyses were performed in order to determine the relationship between decision maker stress and various crises attributes and outcomes related to decision making. The crisis attributes and outcomes examined included: amount of time between crisis trigger and crisis response, the size of the decision making unit in a crisis, the type of crisis management response, the likelihood of definitive outcomes, and the tension level among crisis actors following a crisis. The statistical analysis was conducted separately on non-protracted conflict crises and protracted conflict crises. Results indicate that increases in decision maker stress do impact crises, and stress impacts crises differently in protracted conflict and non-protracted conflict crises. Following these analyses, there is a discussion of these results, including examples from various international crises, lessons to be learned, and areas of future study.