Examines the impact of medical and psychological illness on
foreign policy decision making. Illness provides specific,
predictable, and recognizable shifts in attention, time
perspective, cognitive capacity, judgment, and emotion, which
systematically affect impaired leaders. In particular, this book
discusses the ways in which processes related to aging, physical
and psychological illness, and addiction influence decision making.
This book provides detailed analysis of four cases among the
American presidency. Woodrow Wilson''s October 1919 stroke affected
his behavior during the Senate fight over ratifying the League of
Nations. Franklin Roosevelt''s severe coronary disease influenced
his decisions concerning the conduct of war in the Pacific from
1943–1945 in particular. John Kennedy''s illnesses and treatments
altered his behavior at the 1961 Vienna conference with Soviet
Premier Khrushchev. And Nixon''s psychological impairments biased
his decisions regarding the covert bombing of Cambodia in
1969–1970.
目錄:
1. Introduction
2. Aging, illness, and addiction
3. The exacerbation of personality: Woodrow Wilson
4. Leading while dying: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 1943–45
5. Addicted to power: John F. Kennedy
6. Richard Nixon: bordering on sanity
7. 25th Amendment
8. Presidential care.