Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis (eBook)

A Study of Political Decision-Making

Barbara Reardon Farnham (Autor)

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2021
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-22751-1 (ISBN)

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Franklin Roosevelt's intentions during the three years between Munich and Pearl Harbor have been a source of controversy among historians for decades. Barbara Farnham offers both a theory of how the domestic political context affects foreign policy decisions in general and a fresh interpretation of FDR's post-Munich policies based on the insights that the theory provides. Between 1936 and 1938, Roosevelt searched for ways to influence the deteriorating international situation. When Hitler's behavior during the Munich crisis showed him to be incorrigibly aggressive, FDR settled on aiding the democracies, a course to which he adhered until America's entry into the war. This policy attracted him because it allowed him to deal with a serious problem: the conflict between the need to stop Hitler and the domestic imperative to avoid any risk of American involvement in a war. Because existing theoretical approaches to value conflict ignore the influence of political factors on decision-making, they offer little help in explaining Roosevelt's behavior. As an alternative, this book develops a political approach to decision-making which focuses on the impact that awareness of the imperatives of the political context can have on decision-making processes and, through them, policy outcomes. It suggests that in the face of a clash of central values decision-makers who are aware of the demands of the political context are likely to be reluctant to make trade-offs, seeking instead a solution that gives some measure of satisfaction to all the values implicated in the decision.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 9.3.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► 20. Jahrhundert bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: acceptability • Accountability • Adolf Hitler • Adviser • Aid to democracies • Airpower • Ambiguity • Appeasement • authoritarian government • awareness • Behavioral decision theory • belief systems • belligerent • Berchtesgaden • bernard baruch • Blockade • bolstering • Buck-passing • Bureaucratic Politics • Calculation • Cambridge University Press • Case Studies • Central Europe • Charlottesville Program • Cognitive Effort • cognitive style • Collective Security • compromise • Consensus • consistency • containment • Contingency Theory • Criticism • czechoslovakia • Daniel Kahneman • Decision-Making • Decision Rules • Decision Theory • declaration of war • Deliberation • Democratic Peace • Determination • Dictatorship • Diesing, Paul • diplomatic history • Disarmament • domestic policy • Dror, Yehezkel • Emerson, William • Europe • European theatre of World War II • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • France • Franklin D. Roosevelt • George, Alexander • German occupation of Czechoslovakia • Germans • Godesberg meeting • Good Neighbor Policy • Haglund, David • Helium controversy • hostility • Hull, Cordell • Hyde Park meetings • Ideology • incrementalism • inference • International Relations • International Security • interventionists • isolationism • Italians • Jimmy Carter • Jon Elster • Jouaux, Leon • Keynes, John Maynard • Latin America • Legislation • Level of Analysis • levels of analysis • Lindsay, Sir Ronald • Lothian, Lord • Memoir • Morgenthau • Munich Agreement • Nation • national security • Nazi Germany • Nazi Party • Nazism • Neutral country • neutrality • Nine Power Conference • Nuclear warfare • opportunity costs • Optimizing • Organizational Behavior • Oxford University Press • Philip E. Tetlock • Plausibility probe • policy analysis • policy analysts • political capital • Political Psychology • Political Science • political spectrum • political strategy • Politician • Politics • Prediction • Princeton University Press • Probability • Prospect Theory • Psychology • Public Opinion • Public Policy • Quarantine Speech • Rainbow Plans • Rational Choice Theory • Rationality • Rearmament • Requirement • result • Robert Jervis • roosevelt administration • Satisficing • Search-design continuum • Spanish Civil War • Strategy • Suggestion • Sumner Welles • Tax • theory • Thought • Trade-off • Treaty • Uncertainty • Undeclared War • United States Department of State • Value (ethics) • Victory In Europe Day • warfare • World Politics • World War • World War II
• ISBN-10: 0-691-22751-9 / 0691227519
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-22751-1 / 9780691227511