The U.S. Decision Making Process During 1954-55 Taiwan Strait Crisis

Autor: Huang, Chien-yun, 黃倩雲
Rok vydání: 1996
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 84
Based on the Rational Actor Paradigm formulated by Graham T. Allison, and the Cognitive Model offered by Alexander L. George, Robert Jervis, John D. Steinbruner, and Jack L. Snyder, the author studies the U.S. decision-making process during 1954-55 Taiwan Strait Crisis. There are five chapters in the thesis. In Chapter One, the author explains her research motives, purposes and approaches. She also explains the limitations she has faced during the process of the research. In the first section of Chapter Two, the author describes the definition of crisis as well as reviews the theoretical studies concerning the crisis behavior. In the second and third sections, the author analyzes respectively the Rational Actor Paradigm and the Cognitive Model. In Chapter Three, the author explains the U.S. decision- making process during 1954-55 Taiwan Strait Crisis in terms of the Rational Actor Model. Besides, she subjects the chosen options to the tests of the strategies for crisis management constructed by Glenn H. Snyder and Paul Diesing in order to prove the rational choice is value- maximizing. In the first section of Chapter Four, the author explores the misperceptions American policymakers held toward the Communist China. In the second section, the author points out the role of the cognitive principles of management of incon- sistency in structuring the decisionmakers'' conception of their environment under conditions of uncertainty. In the third section, the author highlights how the decisionmakers resort to defensive psychological modes of coping with the emotional stress of being confronted by crisis situation. In Chapter Five, the author concludes by stating the theories- testing results in the case of U.S. decision-making process during 1954-55 Taiwan Strait Crisis.
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