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Subject(s)

• International relations [Browse]
• Diplomacy [Browse]

Related name

• Schafer, Mark, 1962- [Browse]
• Walker, Stephen G., 1942- [Browse]

Series

• Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis, [More in this series]
• Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis, 2945-5987 [More in this series]

Summary note

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.

Notes

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-274) and index.

Language note

English

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.

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ISBN

• 9786611365691
• 9781281365699
• 1281365696
• 9781403983497
• 1403983496

OCLC

314845302

Doi

• 10.1057/9781403983497

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