Power Over Rationality: The Bush Administration and the Gulf Crisis (Making Foreign Policy (Dis)) - Hardcover

Hybel, Alex R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791414213 ISBN 13: 9780791414217

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1993

Synopsis

To most Americans, the Gulf War symbolizes the culmination of a highly sophisticated decision-making process within the Bush administration. In this highly readable and challenging book, Hybel demonstrates the shortcomings of such a view by using cognitive models to examine how the administration defined problems, identified goals, assessed alternatives, and selected options during the seven months preceding the start of the war.

This book will prove to be a critical contribution to the understanding of the Bush administration's thinking process during the Gulf crisis and of the value of cognitive models in explaining foreign policy making.

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About the Author

Alex Roberto Hybel is Robert J. Lynch Associate Professor of Government at Connecticut College. He is the author of How Leaders Reason: U.S. Intervention in the Caribbean Basin and Latin America, and The Logic of Surprise in International Conflict.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791414213
• ISBN 13: 9780791414217
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 143