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The New International Studies Classroom
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 328

The New International Studies Classroom

This volume combines curricular themes and teaching methods to provide practical teaching tools for international studies faculty. The authors explore the case method, games, simulations, role-play exercises, and uses of technology. Each chapter features classroom activities.

Analogies at War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 296

Analogies at War

From World War I to Operation Desert Storm, American policymakers have repeatedly invoked the "lessons of history" as they contemplated taking their nation to war. Do these historical analogies actually shape policy, or are they primarily tools of political justification? Yuen Foong Khong argues that leaders use analogies not merely to justify policies but also to perform specific cognitive and information-processing tasks essential to political decision-making. Khong identifies what these tasks are and shows how they can be used to explain the U.S. decision to intervene in Vietnam. Relying on interviews with senior officials and on recently declassified documents, the author demonstrates with a precision not attained by previous studies that the three most important analogies of the Vietnam era--Korea, Munich, and Dien Bien Phu--can account for America's Vietnam choices. A special contribution is the author's use of cognitive social psychology to support his argument about how humans analogize and to explain why policymakers often use analogies poorly.

Race and U.S. Foreign Policy During the Cold War
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

Race and U.S. Foreign Policy During the Cold War

This volume traces the modern critical and performance history of this play, one of Shakespeare's most-loved and most-performed comedies. The essay focus on such modern concerns as feminism, deconstruction, textual theory, and queer theory.

Thought and Action in Foreign Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 368

Thought and Action in Foreign Policy

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-11-11
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

This volume is the product of the Conference on Cognitive Process Models of Foreign Policy Decision-Making which was held in London at the Richardson Institute for Conflict and Peace Research from March 17-24, 1973. We would like to thank Michael Nicholson, Director of the Richardson Institute, for acting as the host of the Conference. Support for the Conference and the preparation of the Conference papers for publication was provided by the Mathematical Social Sciences Board (MSSB). The MSSB is funded by aNational Science Foundation grant which is administered by the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences as the primary grantee. We are grateful to Hayward Alker, Jr. and Willia...

The Clash of Ideologies
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

The Clash of Ideologies

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-04-20
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  • Publisher: OUP USA

How do ideologies shape international relations in general and Middle Eastern countries' relations with the United States in particular? The Clash of Ideologies by Mark L. Haas explores this critical question. Haas's central claim is that leaders' ideological beliefs are likely to have profound effects on these individuals' perceptions of international threats. These threat perceptions, in turn, shape leaders' core security policies, including choices of allies and enemies and efforts to spread their ideological principles abroad as a key means of advancing their interests.Two variables are particularly important in this process: the degree of ideological differences dividing different group...

Pictorial and Formal Aspects of Shape and Shape Grammars
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 419

Pictorial and Formal Aspects of Shape and Shape Grammars

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013-12-17
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  • Publisher: Birkhäuser

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Structure of Decision
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 422

Structure of Decision

This book outlines a new approach to the analysis of decision making based on "cognitive maps." A cognitive map is a graphic representation intended to capture the structure of a decision maker's stated beliefs about a particular problem. Following introductory chapters that develop the theory and techniques of cognitive mapping, a set of five empirical studies applies these new techniques to five policy areas. Originally published in 1976. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Military Anthropology
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 503

Military Anthropology

A candid reassessment of the role of anthropologists in mediating encounters between Western armies and non-Western peoples.

The Psychology of Foreign Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 404

The Psychology of Foreign Policy

This book focuses on foreign policy decision-making from the viewpoint of psychology. Psychology is always present in human decision-making, constituted by its structural determinants but also playing its own agency-level constitutive and causal roles, and therefore it should be taken into account in any analysis of foreign policy decisions. The book analyses a wide variety of prominent psychological approaches, such as bounded rationality, prospect theory, belief systems, cognitive biases, emotions, personality theories and trust to the study of foreign policy, identifying their achievements and added value as well as their limitations from a comparative perspective. Understanding how leade...