TY - BOOK AU - VERTZBERGER Yaacov Y I TI - Risk taking and decisionmaking: foreign military intervention decisions SN - 0804731683 (pbk.): PY - 1998/// CY - Stanford, CT PB - Stanford University Press KW - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS KW - INTERVENTION KW - RISK ANALYSIS N2 - A socio-cognitive approach to risk taking which provides a comprehensive analysis of the elements that influence judgements and preferences. A theoretical approach is developed and then tested in five historical case studies of foreign military interventions. These are U.S. interventions in Grenada 1983 and Panama 1989 (low risk), Soviet intervention in Czechoslovakia in 1968 (moderate risk), U.S. intervention in Vietnam 1964-1968, and Israeli intervention in Lebanon 1982-1983 (both high risk) ER -