Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part 1. Groupthink and Beyond -- 1. Foreign Policy-making at the Top: Political Group Dynamics / Paul 't Hart, Eric K. Stern, and Bengt Sundelius -- 2. From Groupthink to Contextual Analysis of Policy-making Groups / Alexander L. George -- 3. Challenging the Mindguards: Moving Small Group Analysis beyond Groupthink / Sally Riggs Fuller and Ramon J. Aldag -- 4. Beyond Decision Making in Formal and Informal Groups: The Dutch Cabinet and the West New Guinea Conflict / Max V. Metselaar and Bertjan Verbeek -- 5. Understanding the Small Group Decisions in Foreign Policy: Process Diagnosis and Research Procedure / Eric K. Stern and Bengt Sundelius -- Part 2. Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policy -- 6. Probing the Plausibility of Newgroup Syndrome: Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs / Eric K. Stern -- 7. "Following the Leader": The Impact of U.S. Presidential Style upon Advisory Group Dynamics, Structure, and Decision / Thomas Preston -- 8. Political Manipulation within the Small Group: Foreign Policy Advisers in the Carter Administration / Paul D. Hoyt and Jean A. Garrison -- 9. Collective Risk Taking: The Decision-making Group / Yaacov Y. I. Vertzberger -- Part 3. Implications -- 10. From Analysis to Reform of Policy-making Groups / Paul 't Hart -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index.