TY - BOOK AU - Pherson,Randolph H. AU - Donner,Ole AU - Gnad,Oliver ED - SpringerLink (Online service) TI - Clear Thinking: Structured Analytic Techniques and Strategic Foresight Analysis for Decisionmakers T2 - Professional Practice in Governance and Public Organizations, SN - 9783031487668 AV - JZ5587-6009 PY - 2024/// CY - Cham PB - Springer Nature Switzerland, Imprint: Springer KW - Security, International KW - Political science KW - Cognitive psychology KW - Political leadership KW - World politics KW - International Security Studies KW - Governance and Government KW - Cognitive Psychology KW - Political Leadership KW - Political History N1 - Chapter 1. Setting the Stage -- Chapter 2. Understanding How We Think: System I and System 2 -- Chapter 3. Conceptualizing Your Topic -- Chapter 4. Blackout In Berlin! -- Chapter 5. Terror in Stockholm -- Chapter 6. Conflict or Cooperation in the Arctic? -- Chapter 7. Optimizing the Impact of Your Product -- Chapter 8. Outlook N2 - This book enables analysts in government and the private sector as well as policy advisors and decision makers to assess global risks and opportunities systematically, make well-founded and informed decisions, and anticipate the unanticipated. The authors illuminate the basics of intuitive and analytical thinking and how structured techniques can mitigate the impact of cognitive biases, misapplied heuristics, and intuitive traps. Three case studies illustrate how to apply over 30 Structured Analytic Techniques (SATs) with step-by-step instructions. The final chapter focuses on how to optimize the impact of your analytic product, be it a paper, briefing, or digital display UR - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48766-8 ER -