Why do presidents and their advisors often make sub-optimal decisions on military
intervention, escalation, de-escalation, and termination of conflicts? The leading concept of …

Presidents attract extremely smart, ambitious people to serve in the White House, but the
quality of the advice the president receives depends upon how he or she uses the available …

Donald Trump won the presidency by presenting himself to the electorate as someone who
“could get things done” and by promising to upend policy making in Washington. However …

This book evaluates American foreign policy actions from the perspective of great power
responsibility, with three case studies: Operation Iraqi Freedom, American drone strikes in …

Advocacy of new forums for democratic deliberation should take into account the
deliberative functions of the regular policymaking institutions of representative democracies …

This article studies the political credentials of the women and men nominated to serve as
departmental executives, assessing the extent to which women have been marginalized in …

Groupthink is one of the most popular and extensively discussed approaches in studying
small group decision-making. However, the methodological question of how to make …

How are we to explain US foreign policy—particularly policy making on national security—
during the transformative years of the GW Bush administration? Who were the actors and …

The military detention facility at the Guantánamo Bay naval base is the most enduring
manifestation of the US “war on terror.” It is also materially and symbolically central to US …

This essay explores the relationship between the war on terror, the rise in presidential
power, and the unprecedented nature of the Dick Cheney vice presidency, which is …