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    How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics
    How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics
    How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics
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    How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics

    By Robert Jervis

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    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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPrinceton University Press
    Release dateFeb 14, 2017
    ISBN9781400885336
    How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics
    Author

    Robert Jervis

    Nathan Rosenstein is professor of history at The Ohio State University. He is author of Imperatores Victi: Military Defeat and Aristocratic Competition in the Middle and Late Republic and coeditor of War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe, and Mesoamerica.

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      Very informative but a little technical. Given the time and energy, this book rewards with a firm scientific basis for how a statesmen should approach foreign policy and how to avoid false conclusions, like that U.S. bomber planes needed to be supirior to those of the U.S.S.R.

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