| Table of Contents | 第4-6页 |
| 摘要 | 第6-8页 |
| ABSTRACT | 第8-10页 |
| LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS | 第11-12页 |
| CHAPTER ONE:INTRODUCTION AND REIEW OF THE THEORY | 第12-26页 |
| 1.1. Introduction | 第12-14页 |
| 1.2. Review of the Theory | 第14-26页 |
| 1.2.1 Introduction to Leaders Perception,Psychology and Personality and itsinfluence on Foreign policy | 第14-16页 |
| 1.2.2. When and which leaders matter in Foreign Policy decisions? | 第16-19页 |
| 1.2.3. Does Leaders Psychology influence the Decisions to be made? | 第19-26页 |
| CHAPTER TWO:RESEARCH QUESTIONS/HYPOTHESIS AND RESEARCHDESIGN | 第26-32页 |
| 2.1. General Statement of the Problem | 第26-29页 |
| 2.1.1. Justification of the Study | 第28页 |
| 2.1.2. Research Question | 第28页 |
| 2.1.3 Delimitation of the Study | 第28-29页 |
| 2.3. Research Methodology | 第29-30页 |
| 2.3.1 Psychobiography | 第29-30页 |
| 2.3.2 Content analysis | 第30页 |
| 2.4 Data Collection methods | 第30-31页 |
| 2.5 Data analysis and presentation | 第31页 |
| 2.6 Emphasis and difficulties in the Research | 第31页 |
| 2.6.1 Limitations of the Rsearch | 第31页 |
| 2.7 Sample and sampling procedures | 第31-32页 |
| 2.7.1 Purposive sampling | 第31-32页 |
| CHAPTER THREE:BUSH's PSYCHOLOGICAL BACKGROUND AND THEFOREIGN POLICY DECISION MAKING PROESS | 第32-47页 |
| 3.1 Bush's Psychological Background | 第32-37页 |
| 3.1.1 Bush's early life | 第32-33页 |
| 3.1.2. Bush's School life | 第33-34页 |
| 3.1.3. Bush's religious life | 第34页 |
| 3.1.4. Bush's Personality | 第34-36页 |
| 3.1.5. Bush's Childhood trauma | 第36-37页 |
| 3.2 The Overall Bush administration Decision Making Process towards the 2003 IraqInvasion | 第37-44页 |
| 3.3. The Decision to invade Iraq and Bush's Psychology | 第44-45页 |
| 3.4. The Bush's Doctrine for War | 第45-47页 |
| CHAPTER FOUR:PRESENTATION OF RESEARCH FINDINGS ANDANALYSIS | 第47-66页 |
| 4.1 Applicability of Leaders psychology perspective to the 2003 US decision to invadeIraq | 第47-57页 |
| 4.1.1 Roles of Bush's Personality towards the decision | 第47-49页 |
| 4.1.2 Bush's religious beliefs | 第49-51页 |
| 4.1.3 Bush's Neoconservative thoughts | 第51-53页 |
| 4.1.4 Bush's personal experience with the Gulf Wars and attempts to mirror hisfather | 第53-54页 |
| 4.1.5 Bush's belief that Saddam Hussein tried to kill his father in 1993 | 第54-55页 |
| 4.1.6 The use of forged documents to convince the Congress towards the invasion ofIraq | 第55-57页 |
| 4.2 Perception and Misperception | 第57-61页 |
| 4.2.1. Perception | 第57-58页 |
| 4.2.2 Bush's misperception towards Iraq | 第58-60页 |
| 4.2.3. Bush's Emotions towards the decision | 第60-61页 |
| 4.3 President Bush's Psychology and its effect on the Decision to Invade Iraq | 第61-66页 |
| CHAPTER FIVE:CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS | 第66-68页 |
| 5.1 Conclusion | 第66页 |
| 5.2 Recommendations | 第66-68页 |
| REFERENCES/BIBLIOGRAPHY | 第68-70页 |
| ACKNOWLEDGEMENT | 第70-71页 |
| 学位论文评阅及答辩情况表 | 第71页 |
