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Volume 5, Issue 2.
Summer
A crisis in foreign relations invariably calls for an optimum of prescience and judgment in decision-makers. By its nature, a crisis involves some higher degree of risk; it imposes on crisis managers the necessity of defining goals and making rapid decisions in a short period of time, often based on incomplete information. In this article, Brad ... read moreMichael Meslin bases his analysis of U.S. crisis management during the Iranian crisis on the cognitive/cybernetic model developed by John Steinbruner. Meslin concludes with the suggestion that U.S. crisis management in the future, because of the changes in the world environment and relative U.S. power and influence, will have to rely on a more intimate knowledge and understanding of other peoples if it is to be successful.
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