When things go wrong: foreign policy decision making under adverse feedback
What happens when a government begins a major foreign policy commitment and then later receives new information that it is failing? The question of how to deal with adverse feedback to high-stakes foreign policy speaks to a number of important, current scenarios in international relations. Indeed, how to handle signs that major prior commitments are not working as intended is common to every aspect of human existence--from the owner of an old car who has to decide whether to make additional rep…
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- Full title :When things go wrong : foreign policy decision making under adverse feedback / edited by, Charles F. Hermann.
Summary
What happens when a government begins a major foreign policy commitment and then later receives new information that it is failing? The question of how to deal with adverse feedback to high-stakes foreign policy speaks to a number of important, current scenarios in international relations. Indeed, how to handle signs that major prior commitments are not working as intended is common to every aspect of human existence--from the owner of an old car who has to decide whether to make additional repairs after a critical breakdown, to management deciding what course to follow when a new investment f.
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- Publication Date:2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2012.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiv, 194 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780203801260, 0203801261, 9781136622465, 1136622462, 9781136622410, 1136622411, 9781136622458, 1136622454
- oclc:ocn785927956
- LC Classification:JZ1253
- Dewey Decimal:327.101/9
Table of Contents
What we do when things go wrong / Charles F. Hermann -- Responding to adverse feedback: group decision-making in protracted foreign policy problems / Charles F. Hermann and Robert S. Billings -- From anticipated victory to sensing entrapment in Vietnam: group efficacy in the LBJ administration / Charles F. Hermann -- The role of leaders in sequential decision-making: Lyndon Johnson, advisory dynamics and Vietnam / Thomas Preston -- Policy commitment and resistance to change in U.S.-Chinese relations: the George H.W. Bush administration's response to Tiananmen Square / Jean A. Garrison -- The British strategy of appeasement: why Britain persisted in the face of negative feedback / Stephen G. Walker, Mark Schafer and Gregory Marfleet -- Applying control theory to sequential foreign policy decision-making / Jeffrey B. Vancouver -- Dealing with adverse feedback / Charles F. Hermann.
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