How Statesmen Think (eBook)

The Psychology of International Politics

Robert Jervis (Autor)

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2017
304 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-8533-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the psychology of international politics for more than four decades. How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the subject from across his career. This collection of revised and updated essays applies, elaborates, and modifies his pathbreaking work. The result is an indispensable book for students and scholars of international relations.How Statesmen Think demonstrates that expectations and political and psychological needs are the major drivers of perceptions in international politics, as well as in other arenas. Drawing on the increasing attention psychology is paying to emotions, the book discusses how emotional needs help structure beliefs. It also shows how decision-makers use multiple shortcuts to seek and process information when making foreign policy and national security judgments. For example, the desire to conserve cognitive resources can cause decision-makers to look at misleading indicators of military strength, and psychological pressures can lead them to run particularly high risks. The book also looks at how deterrent threats and counterpart promises often fail because they are misperceived.How Statesmen Think examines how these processes play out in many situations that arise in foreign and security policy, including the threat of inadvertent war, the development of domino beliefs, the formation and role of national identities, and conflicts between intelligence organizations and policymakers.

Autor

Robert Jervis is the Adlai E. Stevenson Professor of International Politics at Columbia University. His books include Perception and Misperception in International Politics and System Effects: Complexity in Political and Social Life (both Princeton).

Produkt-Details

• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Politik / Gesellschaft
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Allgemeine Psychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Verhaltenstherapie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Adviser • Afghanistan • Al-Qaeda • Ambiguity • American imperialism • Anecdote • Appeasement • arms control • Base rate • Calculation • Cambridge University Press • Causality • Coercive Diplomacy • Cognition • Cognitive Bias • Cold War • containment • covert operation • credibility • cuban missile crisis • Dean Acheson • Decision-Making • Deliberation • deterrence theory • diplomatic history • domino theory • Dwight D. Eisenhower • estimation • Explanation • foreign policy • Foreign policy of the United States • Great Power • Harvard University Press • Henry Kissinger • Heuristic • hostility • Ideology • Indication (medicine) • inference • Insurgency • Intelligence agency • Intelligence Analysis • International Relations • International Security • John F. Kennedy • Kenneth Waltz • limited war • Literature • Loss Aversion • Mikhail Gorbachev • national security • Neville Chamberlain • Nikita Khrushchev • north vietnam • nuclear strategy • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • obstacle • Oxford University Press • pessimism • Policy • Political Psychology • Political Science • Politician • Politics • Precedent • Prediction • Pre-emptive nuclear strike • Princeton University Press • Probability • Prospect Theory • Psychology • Rationality • Refusal • Requirement • result • Richard Ned Lebow • Robert Jervis • Scientist • security dilemma • Self-Image • Soviet Union • Soviet Union–United States relations • Superiority (short story) • Technology • Theory of International Politics • Thomas Schelling • Thought • Total War • Trade-off • Treaty • Uncertainty • Unintended Consequences • United States Department of State • war • weapon of mass destruction • World Politics • World War • World War I • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-8533-7 / 1400885337
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-8533-6 / 9781400885336