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Inside the Situation Room, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo bring together leading scholars and experienced foreign policy practitioners to discuss how decisions with geopolitical consequences are actually made. Together, their research and experience shed a new light on what really matters in times of crisis, from psychology and emotion to trust and diplomacy to public opinion and the evolving role of technology. This book will serve as the first step toward a new standard engagement: more active, iterative collaboration among two communities--scholars and practitioners--who have a great deal to contribute and learn from one another.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Hillary Rodham Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo
- Chapter 1
- The Challenges of Threat Assessment: Does Danger Depend on Who You Ask?
- Don Casler and Keren Yarhi-Milo
- Chapter 2
- The Role of Advisers: How Ideas and Agenda-Setting Shape International Crises
- Tyler Jost, Joshua D. Kertzer, Eric Min, and Robert Schub
- Chapter 3
- How Emotions Shape Crisis Decision-Making: The Role of Fear, Anger, and Risk
- Rose McDermott
- Chapter 4
- The Trust Gap: Why Face-to-Face Diplomacy Matters in Global Crises
- Marcus Holmes
- Chapter 5
- The Iran Deal: Making Decisions Count in Multilateral Diplomacy
- Catherine Ashton
- Chapter 6
- The Challenges of Effective Statecraft: An Examination of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
- Dennis Ross
- Chapter 7
- How Coercive Diplomacy Works: Making Threats in International Crises
- Reid B. C. Pauly and Jessica Chen Weiss
- Chapter 8
- When Coercive Diplomacy Doesn't Work: Lessons Learned Through Failures with a Hostile Adversary
- John J. Sullivan
- Chapter 9
- The Unique Challenges of Covert Missions: How Leaders Assess the "Quiet Option"
- Austin Carson
- Chapter 10
- The Baghdadi Operation: A Quickly and Quietly Orchestrated Plan
- Robert C. O'Brien
- Chapter 11
- The Bin Laden Operation: How a President Made a Risky Decision
- Leon E. Panetta
- Chapter 12
- Evolving Public Opinion: The Invisible Decision-Makers in the Room
- Elizabeth N. Saunders and Jessica L. P. Weeks
- Chapter 13
- Public Opinion Matters: How and Why Citizens Have Influence
- Victoria Nuland
- Conclusion
- Hillary Rodham Clinton and Keren Yarhi-Milo
About the author
Hillary Rodham Clinton has spent over five decades in public service as an advocate, attorney, First Lady, US Senator, US Secretary of State, and presidential candidate. As sixty-seventh US Secretary of State, her "smart power" approach to foreign policy repositioned American diplomacy and development for the twenty-first century. Clinton played a central role in restoring America's standing in the world, reasserting the United States as a Pacific power, imposing crippling sanctions on Iran and North Korea, responding to the Arab Awakening, negotiating a ceasefire in the Middle East, and championing human rights, democracy, and opportunities for women and girls. In her historic 2016 campaign for President of the United States, Clinton won sixty-six million votes. She is the author of eleven best-selling books, host of the podcast
You and Me Both, founder of the global production studio HiddenLight Productions, a producer of the Broadway musical "Suffs," Chancellor of Queen's University
Belfast, and a Professor of Practice at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University where she cofounded with Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo the Institute of Global Politics. She and former US President Bill Clinton have one daughter, Chelsea, three grandchildren: Charlotte, Aidan, and Jasper, and reside in New York.
Keren Yarhi-Milo is the Dean of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Relations at Columbia University. An expert in international security, crisis decision-making, and political psychology, Yarhi-Milo is the author of two award-winning books--
Who Fights for Reputation: The Psychology of Leaders in International Conflict (Princeton University Press, 2018) and
Knowing the Adversary: Leaders, Intelligence, and Assessment of Intentions in International Relations (Princeton University Press, 2014). She has published extensively in top academic journals, as well as in the pages of
Foreign Affairs,
The New York Times,
The Washington Post, and
The Atlantic. In 2023, Yarhi-Milo cofounded and launched with Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton the Institute of Global Politics at Columbia University. Yarhi-Milo earned her PhD in Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania. She lives in New York City with her husband and two sons.
Summary
In Inside the Situation Room, former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Dr. Keren Yarhi-Milo bring together leading scholars and experienced foreign policy practitioners to discuss how decisions with geopolitical consequences are actually made. Together, their research and experience shed a new light on what really matters in times of crisis, from psychology and emotion to trust and diplomacy to public opinion and the evolving role of technology. This book will serve as the first step toward a new standard engagement: more active, iterative collaboration among two communities--scholars and practitioners--who have a great deal to contribute and learn from one another.
