Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy: Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, Gorbachev. (book reviews)

In Leadership Style and Soviet Foreign Policy, James Goldgeier develops a simple and useful model for interpreting foreign-policy decisions. Most world leaders rise to prominence, he posits, as a consequence of having prevailed in a series of domestic political struggles. Schooling in domestic politics, and particularly those "vivid and salient" experiences associated with major successes, gives rise to schemas (austerely defined as simplifying assumptions about the way things work) that reinforce certain kinds of patterned political behavior and bargaining techniques.

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