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Inside the Situation Room: The Theory and Practice of Crisis Decision-Making de Hillary Rodham Clinton

Inside the Situation Room: The Theory and Practice of Crisis Decision-Making

Editat de Hillary Rodham Clinton, Keren Yarhi-Milo
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 ian 2026

Găsim în literatura academică dedicată relațiilor internaționale o falie persistentă între rigoarea teoretică a cercetării și realitatea adesea imprevizibilă a centrelor de comandă. Inside the Situation Room completează exact această lacună, propunând o sinteză între rigoarea universitară și experiența nemijlocită a diplomației la cel mai înalt nivel. Născut dintr-un curs inovator susținut la Columbia University, volumul nu se mulțumește să descrie crizele, ci analizează anatomia deciziei sub presiune.

Reținem structura interdisciplinară care îmbină psihologia politică cu mecanica evaluării amenințărilor. Cartea investighează cum factori precum încrederea, stresul și dinamica de grup influențează rezultatul unor operațiuni secrete sau al negocierilor internaționale. Această lucrare acoperă aceeași arie tematică precum Decision and Interaction in Crisis de Ben Mor, dar cu o abordare mult mai ancorată în practică, înlocuind modelele matematice de joc cu perspectivele subiective ale celor care au ocupat, efectiv, fotoliile decizionale.

În contextul operei editorului, Inside the Situation Room reprezintă o evoluție analitică față de memoriile anterioare. Dacă în Hard Choices, Hillary Rodham Clinton oferea o relatare personală a mandatului său, noul volum sistematizează aceste experiențe într-un cadru pedagogic. Credem că valoarea acestui text rezidă în capacitatea de a transforma studiul de caz într-o lecție despre limitele raționalității în politică, oferind un standard nou de colaborare între „turnul de fildeș” și coridoarele puterii. Este un manual de referință pentru înțelegerea modului în care liderii mondiali navighează incertitudinea.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780197791004
ISBN-10: 019779100X
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 164 x 241 x 34 mm
Greutate: 0.86 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte studenților la științe politice și profesioniștilor din administrație care doresc să înțeleagă procesul decizional dincolo de modelele teoretice abstracte. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă rară asupra modului în care psihologia, opinia publică și dinamica de grup interacționează în momente critice. Este o oportunitate unică de a accesa un „masterclass” despre gestionarea crizelor globale, structurat clar și fundamentat pe experiențe diplomatice reale.

Despre autor

Hillary Rodham Clinton a servit ca secretar de stat al SUA între 2009 și 2013, după o carieră vastă în serviciul public ca avocat, Primă Doamnă și senator. Este autoarea unor volume de succes precum memoriile Living History și Hard Choices, dar și a unor lucrări de analiză socială și politică. În Inside the Situation Room, ea își folosește experiența din centrul decizional al politicii externe americane pentru a media dialogul dintre mediul academic și cel practic. Keren Yarhi-Milo este o cercetătoare recunoscută la nivel mondial, specializată în psihologie politică și luarea deciziilor în relațiile internaționale.

Descriere

Combining decades of diplomacy and world-renowned scholarship, Inside the Situation Room bridges the gap between politics and academia to illuminate how world leaders make decisions in times of crisis. For decades, people have sought to understand how and why decisions are made in times of crisis, but very few get the opportunity to witness leaders' decision-making process. The result has been a persistent disconnect between the theory and the practice of decision-making. Now, a former US Secretary of State has joined forces with a world-renowned scholar to bridge that gap, first in their ground-breaking class at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and now in the pages of this book. In Inside the Situation Room, Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo bring together insights from more than a dozen leading policymakers and scholars so readers can experience a masterclass in global policy and crisis decision-making. The book includes everything from the psychology and mechanics of threat assessment; the role of advisors; the effects of group think and trust; real-life stories of diplomatic efforts and covert operations; and the impact of public opinion. Inside the Situation Room offers an insider look at how decisions are actually made, what theoretical insights might be useful to current and future generations of leaders, and where research still needs to be done. This book will serve as the first step toward a new standard engagement: more active, iterative collaboration among two communities--scholars and practitioners--who have a great deal to contribute and learn from one another.

Recenzii

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo have captured in a book what they have created in the classroom: a rich dialogue between scholars and practitioners on how to tackle the most consequential policy decisions. A vital resource for aspiring and experienced thinkers and doers alike.
This book is a must-read for students and seasoned policymakers--it not only peels back the layers to reveal the factors that shape our choices and decisions in moments of crisis but also forces one to step back and think more strategically about one's own decision-making, including how to recognize biases and avoid blindspots.
With vivid case studies illuminating the centrality of individual leaders, this volume offers a compelling look into crisis decision-making at the highest levels of government.
This is an unusual and important book. It combines the drama of real-world crises with serious analysis of the options policymakers face. Each chapter sheds light on a different piece of the foreign policy puzzle. Together they add up to a primer on policy at the highest level. Clinton and Yarhi-Milo have put together something fresh and valuable that helps us all think more intelligently about international relations.
The Situation Room is the White House nerve center, the place where the theory and practice of national security policy are put to the ultimate test. This unique collaboration of Secretary Clinton and Professor Yarhi-Milo reveals the challenges presented inside that room. Inside the Situation Room is an invaluable guide for students and foreign policy practitioners alike.
This is a wonderful book that artfully synthesizes the analysis and insights of academics and policymakers to improve foreign policymaking. Combining riveting insider information with rigorous scholarly analysis, Inside the Situation Room demonstrates that leaders matter, and their advisors matter too, as together they seek to navigate the unpredictability of global affairs. This book should be required reading for every student of international relations and every practitioner and would-be practitioner of American foreign policy.
Hillary Rodham Clinton, Keren Yarhi-Milo, and their collaborators have written a remarkable book that takes us all 'inside the Situation Room' as leaders consider the most consequential decisions. The chapters crackle with surprise, drama, and tension as leaders struggle, in the face of uncertainty, to make decisions when events press in on them. These highly readable chapters bring historical and contemporary cases to life and raise profoundly important questions about crisis decision-making. Everyone should read this book.
Clinton and Yarhi-Milo are to be praised for attempting to bridge the gap between theory and practice, bringing in ideas from political science or social psychology... I am full square behind this attempt to bring down the walls between "the proverbial ivory tower and the halls of power."

Notă biografică

Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent over five decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, First Lady, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State, and presidential candidate. As the 67th U.S. Secretary of State, her "smart power" approach to foreign policy repositioned American diplomacy and development for the twenty-first century. Clinton played a central role in restoring America's standing in the world, reasserting the United States as a Pacific power, imposing crippling sanctions on Iran and North Korea, responding to the Arab Awakening, negotiating a ceasefire in the Middle East, and championing human rights, democracy, and opportunities for women and girls.In her historic 2016 campaign for President of the United States, Clinton won sixty-six million votes. She is the author of eleven best-selling books, founder of the global production studio HiddenLight Productions, a producer of the Broadway musical Suffs, Chancellor of Queen's University Belfast, Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs, and Faculty Advisory Board Chair of Columbia's Institute of Global Politics.Keren Yarhi-Milo is Dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations. She is a renowned scholar and leading authority on international security, foreign policy decision-making, and political psychology, and author of two award-winning books: Who Fights for Reputation: The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict (Princeton University Press, 2018), winner of both the American Political Science Association's Foreign Policy Section Book Award and the International Studies Association's Best Foreign Policy Book Award; and Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations (Princeton University Press, 2014), winner of the Edgar S. Furniss Book Award in International Security Studies. She has published extensively in leading academic journals as well as in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic.Yarhi-Milo serves as editor of the Princeton Studies in International History and Politics book series. In 2023, she cofounded the Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University with Secretary Clinton as a hub for interdisciplinary engagement on global challenges. Yarhi-Milo earned her PhD in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania.