"At the heart of much work in international relations is the attempt to understand why citizens and leaders act as they do-and over the last decade, a growing body of research has shown that the "rational choice theory" that has long guided this understanding is insufficient. Pe…
"The Chernobyl disaster of April 1986 confronted Europe with an unprecedented - though not unforeseeable - risk. Why did different countries respond in different ways to the event? And what - if anything - was learned from Chernobyl? In The Management of Uncertainty: Learning fr…
This investigative analysis studies why key European countries responded differently to the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, and what can be learned from it. The author details why the accident was defined differently in various countries, why actions were or were not taken, and what…
"The Chernobyl disaster of April 1986 confronted Europe with an unprecedented - though not unforeseeable - risk. Why did different countries respond in different ways to the event? And what - if anything - was learned from Chernobyl? In The Management of Uncertainty: Learning fr…
"Since its original publication in 1976, Perception and Misperception in International Politics has become a landmark book in its field, hailed by the New York Times as "the seminal statement of principles underlying political psychology." This new edition includes an extensive …
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…
Broader thematic reflections on strategic analysis are combined with innovative case studies of how organizations have worked to successfully produce relevant analysis. The first section of the book explores challenges to achieving relevance at the level of the analyst, while th…
