Managing National Security Policy
Subtitle: The President and the Process
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: July 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780822942092
Subjects: Constitution: government & the state; International relations; Political leaders & leadership; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; USA; Government - U.S. Government; Public Policy - General; International Relations - Arms Control; Political Process - Leadership; 20th century; Decision making; History; Military policy; National security; Presidents; United States
Description: "In this book, William W. Newmann examines the way presidents manage their advisory process for national security decision making and the way that process evolves over the course of an administration's term. Three detailed case studies show how the president and his senior advisors managed arms control and nuclear strategy during the first terms of the Carter, Reagan, and G.H.W. Bush presidencies. These studies, enhanced by interviews with key members of the national security teams, including James Baker, Brent Scowcroft, and Zbigniew Brzezinski, reveal significant patterns of structure and adaptation.

They provide a window to how decision making in the modern White House really works, at a moment when national security decisions are again at the top of the agenda."--Jacket.