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How Statesmen Think: The Psychology of International Politics

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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 up to date 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, in addition to 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 more than one shortcuts to are searching for and process information when making foreign policy and national security judgments. For instance, the desire to conserve cognitive resources can cause decision-makers to have a look at misleading indicators of military strength, and psychological pressures can make them run particularly high risks. The book also looks at how deterrent threats and counterpart promises continuously fail because they’re misperceived.

How Statesmen Think examines how these processes play out in many situations that arise in foreign and security policy, including the specter of inadvertent war, the development of domino beliefs, the formation and role of national identities, and conflicts between intelligence organizations and policymakers.

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