Trenta, Luca

Risk and presidential decision-making: the emergence of foreign policy crises

by Trenta, Luca

fromRoutledge studies in US foreign policy

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1. Risk in international relations and foreign policy -- 2. A new framework : risk vs. risk trade-offs, crises and international relations -- 3. 'I should have said that we don't care' : the Kennedy administration and Cuba, 1961-1962 -- 4. 'We are sticking with the Shah' : the C…

Risk and presidential decision-making: the emergence of foreign policy crises

by Trenta, Luca

fromRoutledge studies in US foreign policy

0 Type: Book

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 …

With the radicalisation of the ‘War on Terror’ and the chaos following the 2003 Iraq War, the concept of ‘risk’ emerged as central to a wide-ranging set of claims about the extent and significance of the changed post-Cold War strategic environment and its impact on policy-making…