Groupthink versus high-quality decision making in international relations

List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgmentsPart I. Groupthink and the Quality of the Foreign-Policy Decision-Making Process 1. Introduction2. The Group and the Individual in Foreign-Policy Decision Making3. The Decision-Making Model: The Interplay of Group Processes and Psychological CharacteristicsPart II. Case Studies in American Foreign-Policy Decision Making 4. Case Studies in Low-Quality Decision Making5. Case Studies in High-Quality Decision MakingPart III. Statistical Analyses 6. The Effect of Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making on Outcomes7. Individual-Level Factors Affecting the Quality of Decision MakingPart IV. Conclusions 8. The 2003 War in Iraq: How Flawed Decision Making Led to Critical Failures9. Groupthink Versus High-Quality Decision Making: Lessons and PrescriptionsAppendix A. Cases Included in the AnalysisAppendix B. Operational Definitions of Situational-Context VariablesAppendix C. Operational Definitions of Group-Structural VariablesAppendix D. Operational Definitions of Decision-Processing VariablesNotesReferencesIndex