Pandora`s Trap: Presidential Decision Making and Blame Avoidance in Vietnam and Iraq, Preston Thomas

Автор: Preston Thomas
Название: Pandora`s Trap: Presidential Decision Making and Blame Avoidance in Vietnam and Iraq
ISBN: 0742562638 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780742562639
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Цена: 20698.00 р.
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Описание: How important is presidential personality and leadership style in foreign policy decisions? To answer this question, Thomas Preston takes readers inside the Bush administration's decision-making process and use of intelligence to better understand how administration officials justified the Iraq War-and how they sought to avoid blame for the consequences of their actions. Based on extensive interviews with key Bush and Johnson administration officials, Preston offers students of American foreign policy, presidential decision making, the dynamics of blame avoidance, and future practitioners with an in depth examination of how presidential personality and leadership style impacted Bush's central foreign policy failure. In addition, Preston looks critically at the oft-cited comparisons of Iraq to Lyndon Johnson's leadership during the Vietnam War, exploring where the analogy fits and a number of important differences. He shows how both presidents' styles exacerbated their managerial weaknesses in these cases and the limits of blame avoidance strategies. Importantly, the book provides a cautionary tale for future leaders to consider more carefully the long-term consequences of satisfying their short term policy desires by lifting the lid to any new Pandora's trap.

Автор: Preston, Thomas
Название: From lambs to lions
ISBN: 0742555038 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780742555037
Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Описание: In From Lambs to Lions, Thomas Preston examines current trends in the proliferation of nuclear and biological weapons capabilities, know-how, and technologies for both state and non-state actors-and then projects these trends over the coming ten to fifteen years to assess how ...