Decision-Making in Great Britain During the Suez Crisis: Small Groups and a Persistent Leader

by Verbeek,Bertjan

• ISBN13: 9780754632535
• ISBN10: 0754632539
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-10-28
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This radically new work provides an innovative approach to the question of why the Suez Crisis erupted. Bertjan Verbeek here applies foreign policy analysis framework to British decision-making during the crisis, providing the first full foreign policy analysis of this important event.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	vii
Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
1 Introduction: The Puzzle of Suez	1	(16)
2 Theory: Crisis Decision-Making	17	(26)
3 Images Held by the British Political Elite	43	(18)
4 The Wordview of Sir Anthony Eden	61	(20)
5 Six Decisional Conflicts	81	(52)
6 Resolving the Puzzle of Suez	133	(24)
7 Conclusions	157	(10)
Appendix 1: Who is Who?	167	(2)
Appendix 2: Who Met Whom at Whitehall?	169	(8)
Appendix 3: The Impact of Sir Anthony Eden's Health	177	(2)
References	179	(10)
Index	189