"Backing down during a crisis reduces a country's future credibility." It's been a long held belief with American foreign policy makers and a conviction that has driven foreign policy decisions from WWI to the Iraq War. But not necessarily so says the author of a new book "Calculating Credibility". Daryl Press, a former professor at Dartmouth College uses historical evidence to answer two crucial questions: When a country back down in a crisis, does its credibility suffer? And how do leaders assess their adversaries' credibility?". Laura's guest is Daryl Press, Associate Professor of political science at the University of Pennsylvania and author of "Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats".
