TAKING ACCOUNT OF INDIVIDUALS IN INTERNATIONAL POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY -EISENHOWER, KENNEDY AND INDO-CHINA

This article proposes a merger of the systemic and largely cognitive c oncerns that informed most of Alexander George's contributions to poli tical psychology in the years beginning with the 1970s with George's e arlier, more holistic, preoccupation with individual psychology, as ma nifested in his classic study with Juliette George of Woodrow Wilson a nd Colonel House. The case for such a merger is made by means of an il lustrative examination of a historical episode of misperception on the part of policy makers which cannot be adequately understood without a nalyzing the particular personal qualities of the individuals who figu red in the episode.