TY - BOOK AU - Farnham,Barbara Reardon TI - Roosevelt and the Munich Crisis: A Study of Political Decision-Making T2 - Princeton Studies in International History and Politics SN - 9780691227511 AV - E183.8.G3 U1 - 940.532273 23 PY - 2022///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - HISTORY / United States / 20th Century KW - bisacsh KW - Acceptability KW - Aid to democracies KW - Airpower KW - Appeasement KW - Authoritarian government KW - Behavioral Decision Theory KW - Belief systems KW - Berchtesgaden KW - Blockade KW - Bolstering KW - Buck-passing KW - Bureaucratic politics KW - Case studies KW - Charlottesville Program KW - Cognitive effort KW - Compromise KW - Consensus KW - Consistency KW - Czechoslovakia KW - Decision rules KW - Democratic peace KW - Diesing, Paul KW - Dror, Yehezkel KW - Emerson, William KW - Europe KW - France KW - George, Alexander KW - Godesberg meeting KW - Good Neighbor Policy KW - Haglund, David KW - Helium controversy KW - Hull, Cordell KW - Hyde Park meetings KW - Incrementalism KW - Interventionists KW - Isolationism KW - Jouaux, Leon KW - Keynes, John Maynard KW - Levels of analysis KW - Lindsay, Sir Ronald KW - Lothian, Lord KW - Nine Power Conference KW - Opportunity costs KW - Optimizing KW - Plausibility probe KW - Policy analysts KW - Rainbow Plans KW - Rearmament KW - Roosevelt administration KW - Search-design continuum KW - neutrality N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Abbreviations Used in the Footnotes --; Chapter I Roosevelt, the Munich Crisis, and Political Decision-Making --; Part One THEORY --; Chapter II The Political Approach to Decision-Making --; PART TWO: ROOSEVELT AND THE MUNICH CRISIS --; Chapter III The "Watershed" between Two Wars: 1936-1938 --; Chapter IV The Munich Crisis --; Chapter V Assessing the Munich Crisis --; Chapter VI Dealing with the Consequences of Munich --; Chapter VII Implications for History and Theory --; Appendix A Traditional Approaches to Decision-Making --; Appendix B Analyzing the Calculus of Political Feasibility: The Nature of the Acceptability Constraint --; Appendix C The Traditional Political Strategies --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access N2 - Franklin Roosevelt's intentions during the three years between Munich and Pearl Harbor have been a source of controversy among historians for decades. Barbara Farnham offers both a theory of how the domestic political context affects foreign policy decisions in general and a fresh interpretation of FDR's post-Munich policies based on the insights that the theory provides. Between 1936 and 1938, Roosevelt searched for ways to influence the deteriorating international situation. When Hitler's behavior during the Munich crisis showed him to be incorrigibly aggressive, FDR settled on aiding the democracies, a course to which he adhered until America's entry into the war. This policy attracted him because it allowed him to deal with a serious problem: the conflict between the need to stop Hitler and the domestic imperative to avoid any risk of American involvement in a war. Because existing theoretical approaches to value conflict ignore the influence of political factors on decision-making, they offer little help in explaining Roosevelt's behavior. As an alternative, this book develops a political approach to decision-making which focuses on the impact that awareness of the imperatives of the political context can have on decision-making processes and, through them, policy outcomes. It suggests that in the face of a clash of central values decision-makers who are aware of the demands of the political context are likely to be reluctant to make trade-offs, seeking instead a solution that gives some measure of satisfaction to all the values implicated in the decision UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691227511?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780691227511 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780691227511/original ER -