Intelligence Success and Failure: The Human Factor - Softcover

Bar-Joseph, Uri

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0199341745 ISBN 13: 9780199341740

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2017

Synopsis

Presents a new theory in the study of strategic surprise that warning failure is a result of motivated biases in that null prior doubt.

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About the Author

Uri Bar-Joseph is a Professor at the School of Political Science, Haifa University, Israel. He concentrates on strategic and intelligence studies, especially focusing on the Arab-Israeli conflict and Israeli security policy. In addition to numerous refereed journal articles and book chapters, he wrote six books, the most recent of which is The Angel: The Egyptian Spy Who Saved Israel (2016).

Rose McDermott is the David and Mariana Fisher University Professor of International Relations at Brown University and a Fellow in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has held fellowships at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies and the Women and Public Policy Program, all at Harvard University. She has been a fellow at the Stanford Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences twice. She is the author of four books, a co-editor of two additional volumes, and author of over a hundred academic articles across a wide variety of disciplines encompassing topics such as experimentation, emotion and decision making, and the biological and genetic bases of political behavior.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199341745
• ISBN 13: 9780199341740
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 280