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How Statesmen Think

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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Jervis EAN: 9780691176444 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 482 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Princeton University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-02-28 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Treaties, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Occupational and industrial psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Diplomacy, Arms negotiation and control, Public international law: treaties and other sources

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      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).
      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.
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Robert Jervis EAN: 9780691176444 COUNTRY: United States PAGES: WEIGHT: 482 g HEIGHT: 235 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Princeton University Press DATE PUBLISHED: 2017-02-28 CITY: GENRE: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Arms Control, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Treaties, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology WIDTH: 152 cm SPINE:

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      Occupational and industrial psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Diplomacy, Arms negotiation and control, Public international law: treaties and other sources

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      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).

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