Contents
Acknowledgments
Part 1. Groupthink and Beyond
1. Foreign Policy-making at the Top: Political Group Dynamics / Paul 't Hart, Eric K. Stern, and Bengt Sundelius
2. From Groupthink to Contextual Analysis of Policy-making Groups / Alexander L. George
3. Challenging the Mindguards: Moving Small Group Analysis beyond Groupthink / Sally Riggs Fuller and Ramon J. Aldag
4. Beyond Decision Making in Formal and Informal Groups: The Dutch Cabinet and the West New Guinea Conflict / Max V. Metselaar and Bertjan Verbeek
5. Understanding the Small Group Decisions in Foreign Policy: Process Diagnosis and Research Procedure / Eric K. Stern and Bengt Sundelius
Part 2. Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policy
6. Probing the Plausibility of Newgroup Syndrome: Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs / Eric K. Stern
7. "Following the Leader": The Impact of U.S. Presidential Style upon Advisory Group Dynamics, Structure, and Decision / Thomas Preston
8. Political Manipulation within the Small Group: Foreign Policy Advisers in the Carter Administration / Paul D. Hoyt and Jean A. Garrison
9. Collective Risk Taking: The Decision-making Group / Yaacov Y. I. Vertzberger
Part 3. Implications
10. From Analysis to Reform of Policy-making Groups / Paul 't Hart
Bibliography
Contributors
Index