Beyond Groupthink Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policy-Making

Name: Beyond Groupthink Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policy-Making
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ISBN: 9780472066537

ISBN-10: 0472066536

ISBN-13: 9780472066537

Edition: 1997

Authors: Paul 't Hart, Eric Stern, Bengt Sundelius

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Strategic issues and crises in foreign policy are usually managed by relatively small groups of elite policymakers and their closest advisors. Since the pioneering work of Irving Janis in the early 1970s, we have known that the interplay between the members of these groups can have a profound and, indeed, at times a pernicious influence on the content and quality of foreign policy decisions. Janis argued that "groupthink," a term he used to describe a tendency for extreme concurrence-seeking in decision-making groups, was a major cause of a number of U.S. foreign policy fiascoes. And yet not all small groups suffer from groupthink; in fact many high-level bodies are handicapped by an…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Publication date: 4/14/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 392
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Dr Eric Stern is the Director of CRISMART, acting Professor of Government at the Swedish National Defence College as well as Associate Professor of Government at Uppsala University. He is the author of Crisis Decisionmaking: A Cognitive Institutional Approach (1999).



Acknowledgments



Groupthink and Beyond



Foreign Policy-making at the Top: Political Group Dynamics




From Groupthink to Contextual Analysis of Policy-making Groups




Challenging the Mindguards: Moving Small Group Analysis beyond Groupthink




Beyond Decision Making in Formal and Informal Groups: The Dutch Cabinet and the West New Guinea Conflict




Understanding Small Group Decisions in Foreign Policy: Process Diagnosis and Research Procedure




Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policy



Probing the Plausibility of Newgroup Syndrome: Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs




"Following the Leader": The Impact of U.S. Presidential Style upon Advisory Group Dynamics, Structure, and Decision




Political Manipulation within the Small Group: Foreign Policy Advisers in the Carter Administration




Collective Risk Taking: The Decision-making Group




Implications



From Analysis to Reform of Policy-making Groups



Bibliography


Contributors


Index