"Critical Foreign Policy Decisions: Continue or Change Course?"
When government leaders have made major investments to a foreign or security policy, how do they respond to signals that the policy is failing? Exploration of four cases involving Lyndon Johnson (Vietnam), MacKenzie King (Canadian-U.S. free trade), Ariel Sharon (Israeli settlements), and George W. Bush (Iraq war) offer possible insights into critical factors hypothesized to influence their response.
Charles F. Hermann (Chuck) was the founding director of the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, where he now is the Brent Scowcroft Chair in International Policy Studies and International Affairs. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Mershon Center, where he served first as associate director beginning in 1970 and then as director from 1980 to 1995.
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