{"product_id":"9781421411262","title":"National Security through a Cockeyed Lens: How Cognitive Bias Impacts U.S. Foreign Policy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"How do mental errors or cognitive biases undermine good decision making?\" This is the question Steve A. Yetiv takes up in his latest foreign policy study, \u003ci\u003eNational Security through a Cockeyed Lens\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYetiv draws on four decades of psychological, historical, and political science research on cognitive biases to illuminate some of the key pitfalls in our leaders’ decision-making processes and some of the mental errors we make in perceiving ourselves and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracing five U.S. national security episodes—the 1979 Soviet invasion and occupation of Afghanistan; the Iran-Contra affair during the Reagan administration; the rise of al-Qaeda, leading to the 9\/11 attacks; the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq; and the development of U.S. energy policy—Yetiv reveals how a dozen cognitive biases have been more influential in impacting U.S. national security than commonly believed or understood. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdentifying a primary bias in each episode—disconnect of perception versus reality, tunnel vision (\"focus feature\"), distorted perception (\"cockeyed lens\"), overconfidence, and short-term thinking—Yetiv explains how each bias drove the decision-making process and what the outcomes were for the various actors. His concluding chapter examines a range of debiasing techniques, exploring how they can improve decision making.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Johns Hopkins University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47127850516720,"sku":"9781421411262","price":27.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781421411262","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}