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Perceptions of China and White House Decision-Making, 1941-1963 - Spears of Promise, Shields of Truth (Paperback)
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Perceptions of China and White House Decision-Making, 1941-1963 - Spears of Promise, Shields of Truth (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Advances in American History
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This book assesses and evaluates the decision-making behavior of
United States presidents and their chief advisers from Roosevelt to
Kennedy pertaining to China. Seeking to dispel with the notion that
each administration sought policy outcomes on the basis of a
rational decision-making model, Bartley highlights the
contradictions of adopted presidential decision-making processes
and the nature of domestic politics as playing prejudicial and
debilitating roles. The book demonstrates that elite
decision-making processes interacted with assumptions made about
Chinese behavior, interests, and attitudes only superficially and
in some cases not at all. Misinformation and misperception were the
natural outcomes. Reinforced by the politics of McCarthyism at
home, intellectual debate on China policy was squashed,
parochialism and nuance were shunned, and information was closed
off. Ultimately, a divorce between the norm of behavior and the
search for rational policy was registered in each administration.
The net result was a lasting and destructive cognitive dissonance:
to fit expectations of a China reality constructed, information was
ignored, overlooked, and distorted. Offering new insights into the
China policies of consecutive administrations from 1941 to 1963,
this volume will be of great interest to scholars and students of
American foreign policy, security studies, and international
relations.
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