How do world leaders make decisions in important foreign policy encounters? James Goldgeier argues that modern leaders come to power trained not as diplomats but as politicians, and their experiences as the most successful politicians at home provide the "schooling" for how to deal with fr...

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Main Author:	Goldgeier, James M. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Baltimore [u.a.] Johns Hopkins Univ. Press 1994
Series:	Perspectives on security
Subjects:	Gorbačev, Michail > 1931-2022 Brežnev, Leonid Ilʹič > 1906-1982 Chruščëv, Nikita Sergeevič > 1894-1971 Stalin, Josif Vissarionovič > 1878-1953 Geschichte 1948-1990 Besluitvorming Internationale politiek Leiderschap Außenpolitik Politik Innenpolitik Entscheidungsprozess URSS - Politique et gouvernement - 1945-1991 URSS - Relations extérieures - 1945-1991 Sowjetunion Soviet Union > Foreign relations > 1945-1991 Soviet Union > Politics and government > 1945-1991
Online Access:	Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:	How do world leaders make decisions in important foreign policy encounters? James Goldgeier argues that modern leaders come to power trained not as diplomats but as politicians, and their experiences as the most successful politicians at home provide the "schooling" for how to deal with friends and foes in the international arena In Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy, Goldgeier explores this important and understudied connection between key domestic political experiences and foreign policy decisions in case studies of four Soviet leaders of the Cold War era - Joseph Stalin, Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev, and Mikhail Gorbachev Drawing connections between the domestic political experiences of these leaders and their behavior toward the United States during key foreign policy events, Goldgeier offers fresh interpretations of the Berlin blockade crisis of 1948, the Cuban missile crisis of 1961, the Middle East war of 1973, and German reunification in 1989-90
Physical Description:	X, 169 S.
ISBN:	0801848660