Face-to-face diplomacy : social neuroscience and international relations / Marcus Holmes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Marcus, author.

Contributor:

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomacy.

International relations--Psychological aspects.

International relations.

International relations--History--20th century.

History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xii, 303 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Face-to-face diplomacy has long been the linchpin of world politics, yet it is largely dismissed by scholars of International Relations as unimportant. Marcus Holmes argues that dismissing this type of diplomacy is in stark contrast to what leaders and policy makers deem as essential and that this view is rooted in a particular set of assumptions that see an individual's intentions as fundamentally inaccessible. Building on recent evidence from social neuroscience and psychology, Holmes argues that this assumption is problematic. Marcus Holmes studies some of the most important moments of diplomacy in the twentieth century, from 'Munich' to the end of the Cold War, and by showing how face-to-face interactions allowed leaders to either reassure each other of benign defensive intentions or pick up on offensive intentions, his book challenges the notion that intentions are fundamentally unknowable in international politics, a central idea in IR theory.

Contents:

The puzzle of face-to-face diplomacy

Face value: the problem of intentions and social neuroscience

Reassurance at the end of the Cold War: Gorbachev and Reagan face-to-face

Unification and distribution after the wall falls: a flurry of face-to-face

Overcoming distrust at Camp David

"Munich"

Escaping uncertainty.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-295) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

ISBN:

9781108417075

1108417078

OCLC:

1033621250