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Diplomacy, Force, And Leadership: Essays In Honor Of Alexander L. George book cover

1st Edition

Diplomacy, Force, And Leadership Essays In Honor Of Alexander L. George

Edited By Dan Caldwell Copyright 1993
334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge

334 Pages
by Routledge
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This book presents essays portraying the research program of Alexander George's scholarship in all its diversity and complexity. The research program examines subjects ranging from the role of beliefs in foreign policy-making to the factors involved in diplomacy and the use of force.

Introduction Part One: The Beliefs of Publics and Elites 1. U.S. Leadership Attitudes Toward the Soviet Union, 1976–1988 2. Aggressiveness, Involvement, and Commitment in Foreign Policy Attitudes From Faith to Failure: On the Erosion of Soviet Optimism 3. Part Two: Leaders and Central Decision-making Groups 4. Leaders and Foreign Policy Decision-making 5. Afghanistan, Carter, and Foreign Policy Change: The Limits of Cognitive Models 6. Dealing with Presidential Disability: The Assassination Attempt on Ronald Reagan and the 25th Amendment Part Three: Interest Group and Bureaucratic Politics and Processes 7. Command and Control in Crises: Mechanisms of Indirect Control 8. Avoiding Pathologies in Foreign Policy Decision Groups 9. Cycling Over Berlin: The Deadline and Wall Crises Part Four: Diplomacy and the Use of Force 10. Protracted Foreign Military Intervention: A Structured Focused Comparative Analysis 11. Maintaining Security Systems 12. International Multiple Advocacy in U.S. Foreign Policy

Biography

Dan Caldwell is professor of political science and the chairman of the Council on International Studies at Pepperdine University. He is the author of American-Soviet Relations: From 1947 to the Nixon-Kissinger Grand Design and The Domestic Politics of Arms Control: The SALT II Treaty Ratification Debate. Timothy J. McKeown is associate professor of political science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. The author of a number of articles on international political economy, he is also co-author of Organizing Business: Trade Associations in the U.S. and Japan.

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