Title: Organizing for foreign policy crises
First published: 1997
Description: U.S. presidents often assemble ad hoc groups of advisers to help them make decisions during foreign policy crises. How presidents use these groups and how the groups are structured varies. In this landmark study encompassing five presidential administrations, Patrick Haney examines how these crisis decision groups were structured and how they performed the tasks of providing information, advice, and analysis to the president.

Haney employs case studies to examine the different ways presidents from Truman through Bush used crisis decision-making groups to help manage foreign policy crisis.
Subjects: Case studies, Foreign relations, Decision making, Presidents, Crisis management in government, History
Places: United States
Time periods: 20th century, 1989-1993, 1945-1989
LC classification: E840 .H36 1997