{"product_id":"national-security-through-a-cockeyed-steve-a-yetiv-9781421411255","title":"National Security Through a Cockeyed Lens: How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHow poor decision making hurts U.S. national security.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"How do mental errors or cognitive biases undermine good decision making?\" This is the question Steve A. Yetiv takes up in his latest foreign policy study, \u003ci\u003eNational Security through a Cockeyed Lens\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYetiv draws on four decades of psychological, historical, and political science research on cognitive biases to illuminate some of the key pitfalls in our leaders' decision-making processes and some of the mental errors we make in perceiving ourselves and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing five U.S. national security episodes--the 1979 Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan; the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan administration; the rise of al-Qaeda, leading to the 9\/11 attacks; the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq; and the development of U.S. energy policy--Yetiv reveals how a dozen cognitive biases have been more influential in impacting U.S. national security than commonly believed or understood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdentifying a primary bias in each episode--disconnect of perception versus reality, tunnel vision (\"focus feature\"), distorted perception (\"cockeyed lens\"), overconfidence, and short-term thinking--Yetiv explains how each bias drove the decision-making process and what the outcomes were for the various actors. His concluding chapter examines a range of debiasing techniques, exploring how they can improve decision making.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steve A. Yetiv\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1421411253\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781421411255\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Johns Hopkins University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 6.07w x 0.44d","brand":"Steve A. Yetiv","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48088210931967,"sku":"9781421411255","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_35e274a0-b49a-4f54-8b11-edc8a1d0fa67.jpg?v=1769103671","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/national-security-through-a-cockeyed-steve-a-yetiv-9781421411255","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}