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Intuition, Rationality, Mindsets, and Foreign Policy Decision-Making Models

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US Foreign Policy Decision-Making from Truman to Kennedy
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It is experience that changes mindsets, not the other way around.1

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  1. Jo Nesbo, The Leopard (New York: Vintage Books, 2011), 632.

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  2. Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011), 12.

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  3. See also Greg Cahsman, What Causes War? An Introduction to Theories of International Conflict (New York: Lexington Books, 1993), 77–8.

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  4. Barton J. Bernstein, “Roosevelt, Truman, and the Atomic Bomb, 1941–1945: A Reinterpretation,” Political Science Quarterly, vol. 90, no. 1, Spring 1975: 23–4.

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  5. See Mandel, “Psychological Approaches to International Relations”; Holsti, Crisis, Escalation, War; Janis and Mann, Decision Making: A Psychological Analysis of Conflict, Choice, and Commitment; and Rose McDermott, Political Psychology in International Relations (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 2004), 173–7.

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Hybel, A.R. (2014). Intuition, Rationality, Mindsets, and Foreign Policy Decision-Making Models. In: US Foreign Policy Decision-Making from Truman to Kennedy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137294869_8

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