Peter Suedfeld

Can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall

Ronald. E. Osborn Each month Cliff Ransom publishes a newsletter about companies he tracks for his investors. I love reading his newsletter since he is only focused on companies that are persuing Lean as a significant differenator to become leaders within their sectors and business leaders. Without boring you with some of the other stuff in his newsletter ... I thought some real pearls of wisdom contained within his latest communication are worth sharing ... why? Because if I could write my thoughts they would be in violent agreement with his views ... hope you enjoy.

Response to "Democracy from the barrel of a gun?" (A review of Understanding the Bush Doctrine: Psychology and strategy in an age of terrorism).

I. Introduction 1. The Bush Doctrine: Psychological Foundations, Real World Consequences, Stanely Renshon and Peter Suefeld II. The Post 9/11 World 2. Public Opinion in a Dangerous World, Doug Foyle 3. The New Psychology of Alliances, Peter Suedfeld III. Offensive Realism 4. International Relations Theory Meets World Politics: The Neoconservative vs. Realism Debate, Gerhard Alexander 5. The Psychological Origins of Preventive War, Jonathan B. Renshon 6. The Fate of Deterrence in the Post 9/11 World, Richard Ned Lebow 7. Deterrin Rouge Leaders, Jerrold Post IV. Risky Choices: The Bush Doctrine in Practice 8. War, Post 9/11: Preventive Logic, the 2003 Iraq War, and the Bush Doctrine, Jack Levy 9. Iraq: A Historical Analogy in the Making, Phil Tetlock 10. Democracy and the Bush Doctrine, Marvin Zonis V. Conclusion: The Bush Doctrine in Perspective 11. The Bush Doctrine in Perspective, Alexander Moens 12. Anti-Americanism, National Identity and the Bush Doctrine, Janice Stein 13. Premature Obituary: The Future of the Bush Doctrine, Stanley A. Renshon

Multiple views of terrorism.

Originally published in Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books, 1991, Vol 36(12), 1065–1066. Reviews the book, Origins of Terrorism: Psychologies, Ideologies, Theologies, States of Mind edited by Walter Reich (see record 1990-98102-000). This is a truly topical book–not only in the sense of addressing currently “hot” research areas but in dealing with an issue that engages both our intellectual interests and our deepest feelings. This book is an effort to understand terrorist behavior by acknowledging and systematically exploring terrorisms complexity and diversity. The book begins with two chapters outlining different but complementary views on the roots of terrorism. The next (and longest) part of the book develops an insightful taxonomy of terrorists and their organizations, differentiating between, for example, radical terrorist groups that look toward a drastically different future and reactionary ones that want to defend or recover past privileges and status. The last two chapters are summaries of psychological studies of terrorism: what is known, what research should be done, and what the limitations of psychological inquiry are in this field. In summary, the book is well worth reading. However, it does leave the reader wishing that one author had taken up where others left off, producing a coherent and structured overview of the area. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved)