Drawing on interviews and archival research, Greenstein shows how Eisenhower created a new style of political leadership, in which delicate private negotiations were shielded by folksy public evasiveness. This edition includes developments in the study of the Eisenhower presiden…
During the early Cold War period, the Third World began to shed the yoke of European dominance. Locked in a global chess match to extend their political footprint, the superpowers jockeyed for influence in the Third World. In the backdrop of superpower competition, the British c…
This dissertation argues that a certain set of concerns, organized around the "internal focus" or fear that the "republic" was fragile, influenced the national security thinking of both the pre-war conservative isolationists in America First and the early Eisenhower administrati…
The literature on democratization has traditionally concentrated on the internal causes of transition. Recently however, serious attention has begun to focus on causes external. To contribute to this welcome trend, this study explores the effects of US policy on the ebb and flow…
This dissertation is a comparative examination of the decisions of the United States to intervene militarily in Lebanon in 1958 and 1982. The purpose is to analyze how these decisions were made, especially with regard to presidential working-system style and cognition variables.…