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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holmes, Marcus, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomacy.

International relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 303 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Face-to-face diplomacy has long been the lynchpin 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:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 19 Feb 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-108-26627-4

1-108-26476-X

1-108-27173-1