Presidential Risk Behavior in Foreign Policy

The book introduces a Risk Explanation Framework (REF) that integrates research from multiple disciplines to analyze how individual personality and situational factors affect risk propensity. By examining six foreign policy cases from the Truman and Eisenhower administrations, it highlights the roles of aspirations, fears, and time pressures in decision-making. This work significantly contributes to understanding international relations, foreign policy, prospect theory, risk behavior, personality theory, and information processing.