Emotional choices : how the logic of affect shapes coercive diplomacy / Robin Markwica.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Markwica, Robin, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Emotions.

Choice (Psychology).

Control (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Emotional choices

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Summary:

In coercive diplomacy, states threaten military action to persuade opponents to change their behaviour. The goal is to achieve a target's compliance without incurring the cost in blood and treasure of military intervention. Coercers typically employ this strategy toward weaker actors, but targets often refuse to submit and the parties enter into war. To explain these puzzling failures of coercive diplomacy, existing accounts generally refer to coercers' perceived lack of resolve or targets' social norms and identities. What these approaches either neglect or do not examine systematically is the role that emotions play in these encounters. This work contends that target leaders' affective experience can shape their decision-making in significant ways. The study introduces an additional, emotion-based action model besides the traditional logics of consequences and appropriateness.

Contents:

Introduction

The logic of affect

Infeering actors' emotions

The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962

The Gulf Conflict, 1990-1

Conclusion.

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on March 2, 2018).

ISBN:

0-19-251312-5

0-19-183585-4