How Do Leaders Make Decisions?

Understanding how leaders make foreign policy andnational security decisions is ofparamount importance for the policy community and academia. Yet on their own,neither rational nor cognitive schools of decision-making analysis offer totallyconvincing results, and in any case, rigorous decision analysis methodologiesare rarely, if ever, applied to the decisions of world leaders. How Do Leaders MakeDecisions?: Evidence from the East and West, Part B ,the second in a two-part volume coveri