Risk Taking and Decision Making: Foreign Military Intervention Decisions Hardcover - 1998
by Yaacov Y. Vertzberger
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Risks are an integral part of complex, high-stakes decisions, and decisionmakers are faced with the unavoidable tasks of assessing risks and forming risk preferences. This is true for all decision domains, including financial, environmental, and foreign policy domains, among others. How well decisionmakers deal with risk affects, to a considerable extent, the quality of their decisions. This book provides the most comprehensive analysis available of the elements that influence risk judgments and preferences.
The book has two dimensions: theoretical and comparative-historical. The study of risk-taking behavior has been dominated by the rational choice approach. Instead, the author adopts a socio-cognitive approach involving: a multivariate theory integrating contextual, cognitive, motivational, and personality factors that affect an individual decisionmaker's judgment and preferences; the social interaction and structural effects of the decisionmaking group and its organizational setting; and the role of cultural-societal values and norms that sanction or discourage risk taking behavior.
The book's theoretical approach is applied and tested in five historical case studies of foreign military interventions. The richly detailed empirical data on the case studies make them, metaphorically speaking, an ideal laboratory for applying a process-tracing approach in studying judgment and decision processes at varying risk levels. The case studies analyzed are: U.S. interventions in Grenada in 1983 and Panama in 1989 (both low risk); Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968 (moderate risk): U.S. intervention in Vietnam in 1964-68 (high risk); and Israel's intervention in Lebanon in 1982-83 (high risk).
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- Title Risk Taking and Decision Making: Foreign Military Intervention Decisions
- Author Yaacov Y. Vertzberger
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition N/A
- Pages 540
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Stanford University Press
- Date 1998-03-01
- Features Dust Cover
- ISBN 9780804727471 / 0804727473
- Weight 2.09 lbs (0.95 kg)
- Dimensions 9.6 x 6.44 x 1.37 in (24.38 x 16.36 x 3.48 cm)
- Reading level 1450
- Library of Congress subjects Intervention (International law), Risk-taking (Psychology)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97005623
- Dewey Decimal Code 355.683
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