The dynamics that underlie information processing
in foreign policy decisionmaking, the
resultant biases and errors, and implications
for the quality of decisions are tested with
reference to Israeli decision making during
the 1973 conflict. The book focuses on how
Israeli decision makers faced the unavoidable
tasks of assessing risks and forming risk preferences
in the buildup to the conflict. It
emphasizes the way some key assumptions
shaped the cognitive filters through which
information was processed and how this led
to a narrow framing of the choices that were
available. At a broader level the book makes
the case that the way a particular war is initiated,
and even more importantly, the manner
in which the outcome of a particular conflict
is conceptualized, directly affects the
standing of actors in the international system.
Biografia dell'autore
Matteo Legrenzi is Associate Professor at
the School of International Relations of
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. He holds a
D.Phil. in International Relations and an M.Phil.
in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from St.
Antony’s College, Oxford University. He studied
Arabic at the American University in Cairo.
He previously wrote one monograph: The GCC
and the International Relations of the Gulf:
Diplomacy, Security and Economic Coordination in a Changing Middle East (I.B. Tauris).
He also edited: Beyond Regionalism? Regional Cooperation, Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East (Ashgate Publishers); Shifting Geo-Economic Power of the Gulf: Oil, Finance and Institutions (Ashgate Publishers); Gulf Security: Legacies of the Past, Prospects for the future (Routledge). Before returning to Venice, his hometown, he taught in Oxford, Ottawa and Seoul winning the Capital Educators’ Award in 2009 in Canada.
He deals with international relations and comparative government of the Middle East and the Northeast Asia security complex.
He also edited: Beyond Regionalism? Regional Cooperation, Regionalism and Regionalization in the Middle East (Ashgate Publishers); Shifting Geo-Economic Power of the Gulf: Oil, Finance and Institutions (Ashgate Publishers); Gulf Security: Legacies of the Past, Prospects for the future (Routledge). Before returning to Venice, his hometown, he taught in Oxford, Ottawa and Seoul winning the Capital Educators’ Award in 2009 in Canada.
He deals with international relations and comparative government of the Middle East and the Northeast Asia security complex.
