When making (foreign) policy, presidents must navigate between twin dangers: excessive
conformity and destructive conflict among the policy advocates. The notions of devil's and …

The Bush administration's plan for a new Department of Homeland Security is often
described as the most comprehensive effort at institutional reform since the 1947 National …

This article advances a theoretical model of the National Economic Council (NEC) based on
a policy network approach and group decision‐making theory to explain why the US …

First published in 2004, this provocative and remarkable book is the first significant study of
how the Clinton administration revolutionized US policy toward Northern Ireland in the …

The role of the National Security Council (NSC) advisor has become increasingly
consequential in its impact on the president's national security and foreign policy decision …

Research demonstrates that the National Economic Council (NEC) and the decision-making
process through which economic issues must pass are essential components in the …

By analysing significant diplomatic and military decisions of the Johnson, Nixon, Reagan,
and Clinton administrations, and offering an account of national security entrepreneurship …

On 29 November 1994, President Bill Clinton's White House Legal Counsel, Abner J. Mikva,
authorized the Intelligence Oversight Board (IOB) to launch an investigation to determine if …

It is no surprise that the study of American foreign policy has mirrored the general trend
toward constructivist analysis in recent years. This chapter explores the constructivist …

President Clinton's creation of the National Economic Council in 1993 represents a political
response to the rise of so-called inter-mestic issues in the post-cold war world. The NEC was …