Thomas Preston

Pandora's Trap

Presidential Decision Making and Blame Avoidance in Vietnam and Iraq

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780742562646
• ISBN-10: 0742562646
• Artikelnr.: 39676450

Autorenporträt

By Thomas Preston

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: A Tale of Two Texans: the Leadership
Styles of George W. Bush and Lyndon Johnson Chapter 3: The Politics of
Blame Avoidance: Presidential Strategies for Surviving the Washington
'Blame Game' Chapter 4: Opening Pandora's Box: Blame Avoidance, 9/11, and
the Push for War with Iraq Chapter 5: Opening Pandora's Box: Blame
Avoidance During the Iraq War Chapter 6: Bush and Iraq: Revisiting the
Vietnam Analogy Bibliography