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Beliefs and Leadership in World Politics : Methods and Applications of Operational Code Analysis / edited by M. Schafer, S. Walker.

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Format:
Book
Contributor:
Schafer, Mark, 1962-
Walker, Stephen G., 1942-
Series:
Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis, 2945-5987
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
International relations.
Diplomacy.
International Relations.
Local Subjects:
International Relations.
Diplomacy.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (304 p.)
Edition:
1st ed. 2006.
Place of Publication:
New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
Focusing on how policy makers make decisions in foreign policy, this book examines how beliefs are causal mechanisms which steer decisions, shape leaders and perceptions of reality, and lead to cognitive and motivated biases that distort, block and recast incoming information from the environment.
Contents:
Belief systems as causal mechanisms in world politics : an overview of operational code analysis / Stephen G. Walker and Mark Schafer
Operational code analysis at a distance : the verbs in context system of content analysis / Mark Schafer and Stephen G. Walker
A world of beliefs : modeling interactions among agents with different operational codes / B. Gregory Marfleet and Stephen G. Walker
The eyes of Kesteven : how the worldviews of Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet influenced British foreign policy / Scott Crichlow
George W. Bush and the Vulcans : leader-advisor relations and America's response to the 9/11 attacks / Sam Robison
Reagan and Gorbachev : altercasting at the end of the Cold War / Akan Malici
Crisis deferred : an operational code analysis of Chinese leaders across the strait / Huiyun Feng
Links among beliefs and personality traits : the distinctive language of terrorists / Elena Lazarevska, Jayne M. Scholl and Michael D. Young
Economic sanctions and operational code analysis : beliefs and the use of economic coercion / A. Cooper Drury
Economic liberalism and the operational code beliefs of U.S. presidents : the initiation of NAFTA disputes, 1989-2002 / Matthew Stevenson
Bankers and beliefs : the political psychology of the Asian financial crisis / Cameron G. Thies
Structural international relations theories and the future of operational code analysis / Stephen G. Walker and Mark Schafer.
Notes:
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-274) and index.
ISBN:
9786611365691
9781281365699
1281365696
9781403983497
1403983496
OCLC:
314845302

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