Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
How Statesmen Think : The Psychology of International Politics, Paperback / softback Book

How Statesmen Think : The Psychology of International Politics Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks

Description

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.

Information

Other Formats

Save 20%

£28.00

£22.39

Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
Add to Basket
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information