This study examined groupthink and team activities in 30 organizational teams faced with
impending crises. The results show that the groupthink symptoms consisted of 2 factors …

Abstract The state of International Studies as the 20th century draws to a close is
disconcerting. Among the shortcomings are intolerance of competing paradigms, models …

Demand for new knowledge reflects intellectual responses to chaos and crisis created by
the malfunctioning system. This book project is based on the recognition that identity based …

World politics is about interdependence and interaction. One legacy of the concept of
sovereignty is that most research in international relations treats each nation state as …

The recent constructivist turn in international relations theory has brought the concept of
socialization to the attention of the discipline. However, despite this renewed interest in …

That policies and decisions provide distinctive foci for the application of scholarly attention is
a hallmark of the last half of the 20th century. Among landmark invocations of such attention …

We describe an algorithm for the calculation of whether a given state is the origin of a crisis
or not. The algorithm is based on a qualitative, plan-based model of crises described by …

Contemporary military conflicts are not likely to occur between states but rather within states.
Recent examples, such as the ongoing Chechen-Russian war, Kosovar resistance to …

This dissertation develops a critical methodology, which a group can use in a crisis to
develop both a better understanding of the situation and to generate a more effective …

This thesis argues that the structure of foreign policy decision making within the United
States executive branch follows a distinct pattern of evolution over the first term of any …