TY  - CHAP
AB  - Abstract Understanding how leaders make foreign policy and national security decisions is of paramount importance for the policy community and academia. It is our assertion that decisions in these domains can be explained best by tracing the cognitive process leaders go through in formulating and arriving at their decisions, using the Applied Decision Analysis (ADA) method (Mintz, 2005; Mintz & DeRouen, 2010).Consequently, this chapter summarizes the Applied Decision Analysis method which is utilized throughout the chapters comprising this volume. We then discuss the findings presented in this volume, while demonstrating the merit of both ADA and the poliheuristic theory of decision (Mintz, 2004), in the robust analyses of decisions made by Donald Trump, Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Benjamin Netanyahu, Winston Churchill, Mao Zedong, Barack Obama, Saddam Hussein, Khaled Mashal, Muammar Gaddafi, Pieter Botha, and Frederik de Klerk. We conclude by providing a brief summary of the case studies which are included in this volume.
VL  - 28A
SN  - 978-1-78743-394-6, 978-1-78743-393-9/1572-8323
DO  - 10.1108/S1572-832320190000028003
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/S1572-832320190000028003
AU  - Mintz Alex
AU  - Tal-Shir Eldad
PY  - 2019
Y1  - 2019/01/01
TI  - Introduction: How Do Leaders Make Decisions? An Applied Decision Analysis Account
T2  - How Do Leaders Make Decisions?
T3  - Contributions to Conflict Management, Peace Economics and Development
PB  - Emerald Publishing Limited
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
Y2  - 2024/05/12
ER  -