How statesmen think
Subtitle: the psychology of international politics
By: Robert Jervis
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9780691175058; 9780691176444
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: International relations; Psychological aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Part I. Political psychology. Understanding beliefs; title: The drunkard's search; title: Part II. Heuristics and biases. Representativeness, foreign policy judgments, and theory-driven perceptions; title: Prospect theory : the political implications of loss aversion; title: Part III. Political psychology and international relations theory. Signaling and perception : projecting images and drawing inferences; title: Political psychology research and theory : bridges and barriers; title: Why intelligence and policymakers clash; title: Identity and the Cold War; title: Part IV. Psychology and national security. Deterrence and perception; title: Psychology and crisis stability; title: Domino beliefs; title: Perception, misperception, and the end of the Cold War.