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Latest Publications

 

  • Mintz, A. and Terris, L. (Eds). (2018 forthcoming). The Oxford Handbook of Behavioral Political Science. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
  • Barr, K. and Mintz, A. (2018 forthcoming). Did Groupthink or Polythink Derail the 2016 Raqqa Offensive? Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
  • Sofrin, A. (2017). The Two-Group Decision Model: Applications to Military Intervention in the Middle East. Paper presented at the International Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland, February 2017.
  • Mintz, A. and Shay, S. (2017). Adaptation as a New Component of Israel's National Security Doctrine. Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel.
  • Tal-Shir, E. and Mintz, A. (2017). The Russian Decision to Disarm Syria in 2013: A Poliheuristic Perspective. Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel.
  • Sofrin, A. (2017). A Two-Stage Model of Group Decision-Making. Paper prepared for presentation at the annual meeting of the Israeli Political Science Association, Tel Aviv-Jaffa, Israel.
  • Mintz, A. and C. Wayne (2016). The Polythink Syndrome: U.S. Foreign Policy Decisions on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and ISIS. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
    • Mintz, A., Redd, S. B., and Tal-Shir, E. (2017). The Poliheuristic Theory of Political Decision Making. In: W. Thompson (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
  • Mintz, A. and Schneiderman, I. (2017). From Groupthink to Polythink in the Yom Kippur Decisions of 1973. Paper presented at the International Studies Association, Baltimore, Maryland, February 2017.
  • Mintz, A. and Wayne, C. (2016). The Polythink Syndrome and Elite Group Decision-Making. Political Psychology, 37, 3–21.
    Mograbi, E. Saddam Hussein’s Decision Rule. In A. Mintz and D. Adamsky (Eds.), How Leaders Make Decisions. Bingley, England: Emerald Publishing. Forthcoming 2018.
  • Mintz, A. (Ed.) (2016). Whither Israel? Institute for Policy and Strategy (IPS), IDC Herzliya.
  • Talibova, R. and Wayne, C. (2017). Do the Means Match the Ends? Exploring the Connection between Terrorist Tactics & Motives.

 

Latest Events

 

  • What Israeli and Palestinian Group-Think and Group-Dynamics Mean for the Trump Administration? – The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) hosted Prof. Alex Mintz as keynote speaker at their ‘Critical Issues in the Middle East Roundtable’, held on February 23rd, 2017; where he applied the Polythink theory on group dynamics to the Hamas, PLO and Israel. Click on the title to read more.
  • Decision-Making in the Trump Administration (Hebrew) – The Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) held a symposium in honor of Prof. Alex Mintz’s latest book The Polythink Syndrome: U.S. Foreign Policy Decision on 9/11, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Syria, and ISIS. Wherein guest of honor Mrs. Kathleen Kennedy Townsend was keynote speaker, and three distinguished scholars presented the Russian, Iranian, and Israeli viewpoints on Trump’s election.
  • ISA 2017: Group Decision Making: Polythink, Groupthink, and Con-Div Panel – Kasey Barr and Amnon Sofrin presented their respective papers: Did Groupthink or Polythink Derail the 2016 Raqqa Offensive? And The Two-Group Decision Model: Applications to Military Intervention in the Middle East at the 2017 ISA convention at Maryland, Baltimore.