What kind of presidency and foreign policy follows when you combine a confident, activist, and moralist president, who also has a sharp political game plan and who sticks as loyally to personal relations as he wants his advisers to stick to him? Alexander Moens offers one of the first systematic explanations of Bush’s foreign policy by describing the complexities of the man, and how his particular personality and style bore so heavily on the final outcome of his policy. As Moens argues, the person is the policy. This volume offers an original and carefully documented account of Bush’s personality, presidential style, and decision-making process, and how these three core ingredients provide the key to understanding Bush’s overall strategy and policy. Ideal as a source on contemporary US foreign policy, international security, and diplomatic relations, the book also offers insight into presidential leadership and detailed case studies in foreign policy.