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National Security through a Cockeyed Lens: How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy
Steve A. Yetiv
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Description for National Security through a Cockeyed Lens: How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy
Paperback. His concluding chapter examines a range of debiasing techniques, exploring how they can improve decision making. Num Pages: 168 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JMR; JPS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 151 x 227 x 11. Weight in Grams: 246.
"How do mental errors or cognitive biases undermine good decision making?" This is the question Steve A. Yetiv takes up in his latest foreign policy study, National Security through a Cockeyed Lens. Yetiv draws on four decades of psychological, historical, and political science research on cognitive biases to illuminate some of the key pitfalls in our leaders' decision-making processes and some of the mental errors we make in perceiving ourselves and the world. Tracing five U.S. national security episodes - the 1979 Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan; the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan administration; the rise of al-Qaeda, leading ... Read more
"How do mental errors or cognitive biases undermine good decision making?" This is the question Steve A. Yetiv takes up in his latest foreign policy study, National Security through a Cockeyed Lens. Yetiv draws on four decades of psychological, historical, and political science research on cognitive biases to illuminate some of the key pitfalls in our leaders' decision-making processes and some of the mental errors we make in perceiving ourselves and the world. Tracing five U.S. national security episodes - the 1979 Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan; the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan administration; the rise of al-Qaeda, leading ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421411255
SKU
V9781421411255
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About Steve A. Yetiv
Steve A. Yetiv is a professor of political science at Old Dominion University and author of The Absence of Grand Strategy: The United States in the Persian Gulf, 1972-2005 and Explaining Foreign Policy: U.S. Decision-Making in the Gulf Wars, both published by Johns Hopkins.
Reviews for National Security through a Cockeyed Lens: How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy
This provides an American foreign policy expert's survey of security studies and new methods of analyzing and understanding international politics. Highly recommended for any college-level political science collection! Midwest Book Review National Security through a Cockeyed Lens is an interesting read for anyone seeking to understand how seemingly poor decisions can be made at critical junctures. Middle East Journal National ... Read more