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(More customer reviews)I read this book in 1980-something and I still remember it. It helped me to understand the models that politicians use (used?) to make important decisions in the face of uncertainty. While I am sure better techniques - including game theory - are currently used, the good old black box/grey box/blue box methods help explain a number of seemingly foolish decisions that were made by U.S. and Soviet leaders during the cold war.
Make no mistake, this is rather difficult reading for most people. "Most people" refers to those who can't stomach, say, The Economist or Scientific American.
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Systematically examining the different methods that both policy makers and scholars have used to analyze policy making and events, this new edition uses each of these different methods to analyze specific case studies. It applies the various models to seven cases: the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles to Cuba, the U.S. decision to bomb North Vietnam, Communist China's invitation to President Nixon to visit, Nixon's acceptance of the invitation, Iran's taking of American hostages, the Iran-Contra affair, and the Gulf war against Iraq. For professionals in the fields of policy making and international relations.
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