What happens when a government begins a major foreign policy commitment and then later
receives new information that it is failing? The question of how to deal with adverse …

This is a book about managing foreign and security policy in cases of protracted decision
making. More specifically, the contributors address the difficult–but common–situation in …

This contribution is concerned with two particular types of foreign policy 'fiascos' which
appear, at first glance, very different and may therefore require distinct explanations. The first …

Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential
administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending …

At the heart of political leadership lies choice. And at the heart of choice lies judgment. A
leader's psychology and experience intersect with political realities to produce …

Under what conditions should we expect states to do things radically differently all of a
sudden? In this book, David Welch seeks to answer this question, constructing a theory of …

In Catastrophic Success, Alexander B. Downes compiles all instances of regime change
around the world over the past two centuries. Drawing on this impressive data set, Downes …

It is commonly asserted that state leaders, when faced with poor domestic political
conditions, have an incentive to engage in diversionary foreign policy behavior. The …

The authors want to express here their firm conviction that a field such as international
politics is not just a hodge-podge of ideas that in the past for one reason or another have …

This article draws upon recent findings from the field of neuroscience to explore how loss
aversion affects foreign policy resolve. We theorize that US. policy makers are more resolute …