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Fateful Decisions
Inside the National Security Council

Edited by Karl F. Inderfurth and Loch K. Johnson

Price: £19.99 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-515966-0
Publication date: 11 March 2004
400 pages, 14 illus., 234x189 mm

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In the U.S. government, the National Security Council (NSC) is the most important formal institution for the creation and implementation of foreign and defense policy. Drawing from a variety of resources, Fateful Decisions presents a collection of seminal articles, essays, and documents on the NSC. It covers such key topics as the rise of the National Security Advisor to a position of prominence, specific challenges to the NSC, and the role of the NSC in a post-Cold War environment.

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Preface

I. Origins

1. The Development of Political-Military Consultation in the United States , Earnest R. May

2. Postwar Organization for National Security , Ferdinand Eberstadt

3. Legislative Debate on the National Security Act of 1947 , U. S. Congress

4. The National Security Act of 1947 , U. S. Congress

II. Early Years

5. The NSC Under Truman and Eisenhower , Stanley L. Falk

6. Effective National Security Advising: Recovering the Eisenhower Legacy , Fred I. Greenstein and Richard H. Immerman

7. Forging a Strategy For Survival , Henry M. Jackson

8. Organizing for National Security , Jackson Subcommittee

III. Transformation

9. Letter to Jackson Subcommittee , McGeorge Bundy

10. Kissinger's Apparat , John P. Leacacos

11. Presidential Directive/NSC-2 , Jimmy Carter

IV. The Modern NSC

12. The National Security Council System After the Cold War , Vincent A. Auger

13. National Security Presidential Directive 1 , George W. Bush

V. National Security Advisers: Roles

14. Forum on the Role of the National Security Adviser , Woodrow Wilson International Center and Baker Institute

15. The NSC Adviser: Process Manager and More , Colin L. Powell

16. The Lessons of the Iran-Contra Affair for National Security Policy Making , Cecil V. Crabb, Jr. and Kevin V. Mulcahy

VI. National Security Advisers: Profiles

17. McGeorge Bundy , Kai Bird

18. Henry Kissinger , Marvin Kalb and Bernard Kalb

19. Zbigniew Brzezinski , Dom Bonafede

20. Brent Scowcroft , David Lauter

21. Samuel R. Berger , R.W. Apple, Jr.

22. Condoleezza Rice , Elaine Sciolino

VII. Performance

23. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

24. The Transition from the Cold War , George H. W. Bush and Brent Scowcroft

25. Conflict in the Balkans , Eric Moskowitz and Jeffrey S. Lantis

26. The War Against Terrorism , Dan Balz and Bob Woodward

Editors' Introduction

27. America's Departments of State , Bert A. Rockman

28. The NSC Staff as Rogue Elephant , Tower Commission

29. Congress and the NSC , Inouye-Hamilton Committee

IX. Reforms

30. Recommendations on Organizing for National Security , Tower Commission

31. The President and the Secretary of State , Theodore C. Sorensen

32. A New NSC for a New Administration , Ivo H. Daalder and I. M. Destler

33. Road Map for National Security: Imperative for Change , Hart-Rudman Report

For Further Reading

Index

Authors, editors, and contributors

Edited by Karl F. Inderfurth, Visiting Lecturer at Elliott School, George Washington University and
Loch K. Johnson, Regents Professor of Political Science, University of Georgia

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Fateful DecisionsInside the National Security Council

Fateful Decisions
Inside the National Security Council