Christopher Featherstone
Biographic Data
| ID | 5792362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Featherstone |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Featherstone |
| SIGNATURE | FEATHERSTONE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Birmingham |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Low-conceptual complexity and Trump’s foreign policy
This article examines President Trump’s foreign policy behaviour as a product of a leadership style that is entrenched in a plutocratic worldview. We apply elements of Hermann’s leadership traits framework to Trump’s engagement with NATO, and characterize him as a low-conceptual complexity president, enabled by limited search for information and advice, a confrontational and insensitive approach to his environment, and proclivity to violate inter…
Trump’s low conceptual complexity leadership and the vanishing ‘unpredictability doctrine’
This article argues that the Trump administration was not guided by an unpredictability doctrine, but was unpredictable because of the President's low conceptual complexity leadership style. This conclusion is derived by using grounded theory and utilising computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software. We demonstrate that the notion of an unpredictability doctrine was introduced exclusively within the 2015–2016 Republican primary season to…
Allies that count
In this well-written book, Olivier Schmitt aims to further our understanding of the contributions of junior partners to coalitions. Schmitt makes an important argument by challenging the conventional wisdom in this area. Anyone interested in coalition warfare or contemporary military operations should read this book, as the case-study analysis is brilliantly done. Schmitt argues that the utility of a junior partner to a coalition, both politicall…
George W. Bush's foreign policies
The authors of this book on the presidency of George W. Bush offer new insight by challenging the conventional conceptualizations of the foreign policy his administrations enacted. Donette Murray, David Brown and Martin A. Smith argue that there is a need to acknowledge the shades of grey within Bush's foreign policy, beyond the current and prevailing ‘black and white’ view. This is reflected in the way in which the chapters are set out, with an …
Low-conceptual complexity and Trump’s foreign policy
This article examines President Trump’s foreign policy behaviour as a product of a leadership style that is entrenched in a plutocratic worldview. We apply elements of Hermann’s leadership traits framework to Trump’s engagement with NATO, and characterize him as a low-conceptual complexity president, enabled by limited search for information and advice, a confrontational and insensitive approach to his environment, and proclivity to violate inter…
Trump’s low conceptual complexity leadership and the vanishing ‘unpredictability doctrine’
This article argues that the Trump administration was not guided by an unpredictability doctrine, but was unpredictable because of the President's low conceptual complexity leadership style. This conclusion is derived by using grounded theory and utilising computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software. We demonstrate that the notion of an unpredictability doctrine was introduced exclusively within the 2015–2016 Republican primary season to…
George W. Bush's foreign policies
The authors of this book on the presidency of George W. Bush offer new insight by challenging the conventional conceptualizations of the foreign policy his administrations enacted. Donette Murray, David Brown and Martin A. Smith argue that there is a need to acknowledge the shades of grey within Bush's foreign policy, beyond the current and prevailing ‘black and white’ view. This is reflected in the way in which the chapters are set out, with an …
George W. Bush's foreign policies
The authors of this book on the presidency of George W. Bush offer new insight by challenging the conventional conceptualizations of the foreign policy his administrations enacted. Donette Murray, David Brown and Martin A. Smith argue that there is a need to acknowledge the shades of grey within Bush's foreign policy, beyond the current and prevailing ‘black and white’ view. This is reflected in the way in which the chapters are set out, with an …
Low-conceptual complexity and Trump’s foreign policy
This article examines President Trump’s foreign policy behaviour as a product of a leadership style that is entrenched in a plutocratic worldview. We apply elements of Hermann’s leadership traits framework to Trump’s engagement with NATO, and characterize him as a low-conceptual complexity president, enabled by limited search for information and advice, a confrontational and insensitive approach to his environment, and proclivity to violate inter…
Trump’s low conceptual complexity leadership and the vanishing ‘unpredictability doctrine’
This article argues that the Trump administration was not guided by an unpredictability doctrine, but was unpredictable because of the President's low conceptual complexity leadership style. This conclusion is derived by using grounded theory and utilising computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software. We demonstrate that the notion of an unpredictability doctrine was introduced exclusively within the 2015–2016 Republican primary season to…
Allies that count
In this well-written book, Olivier Schmitt aims to further our understanding of the contributions of junior partners to coalitions. Schmitt makes an important argument by challenging the conventional wisdom in this area. Anyone interested in coalition warfare or contemporary military operations should read this book, as the case-study analysis is brilliantly done. Schmitt argues that the utility of a junior partner to a coalition, both politicall…
Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · International Relations and Foreign Policy (3 works) · Argument (complex analysis (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Foreign policy (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works)