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Ethic dimension and decision making in crisis and war
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Auteur: Guillaume Lacaille
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Document en ligne depuis le 31/08/2003 dans :
Sciences politiques, sociologie >Relations internationales
Article  écrit le 24/01/2003 dans l'établissement University of Georgetown
Langue: Anglais
Niveau: Postgraduate (6 années d'études et +)
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Among the few compelling explanations of what constitutes a bad or good choice in the field of decision-making, the proposition of Gary Klein seems particularly significant. Klein assumes that a decision is proved to be poor when its author regrets the way he made it rather than its outcome. He argues “that a person will consider a decision to be poor if the knowledge gained would lead to a different decision if a similar situation arose”. This clear-cut suggestion appears to imply that an effective decision making process should lead naturally toward a satisfactory conclusion when uncontrollable factors such as misfortune, ignorance or overwhelming opposition are absent. Nevertheless, the Rwandan tragedy of 1994 casts a shadow on Klein’s proposition. In this occasion, Washington did not suffer from bad luck or uncertainty. By using his framework, the only fact that most subsequent policy-makers have agreed to assert that the Clinton administration’s course of action should have been different involves that its decision-making process was ineffective.
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