This book examines how beliefs shape leaders’ perceptions of reality and lead to cognitive and motivated biases that distort, block, and recast incoming information from the environment. Using content analysis and formal modeling methods associated with quantitative operational code analysis, contributors analyze how beliefs affect policies related to international security and international political economy.
Author(s): Mark Schafer, Stephen G. Walker
Series: Advances in Foreign Policy Analysis
Edition: illustrated edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2006
Language: English
Commentary: 28780
Pages: 304
Tags: Международные отношения;Международные отношения;Мировая политика и МО;
Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
Part I: Introduction......Page 16
1 Belief Systems as Causal Mechanisms in World Politics: An Overview of Operational Code Analysis......Page 18
Part II: Methods: Content Analysis and Formal Models......Page 38
2 Operational Code Analysis at a Distance: The Verbs in Context System of Content Analysis......Page 40
3 A World of Beliefs: Modeling Interactions Among Agents with Different Operational Codes......Page 68
Part III: Applications: The Domain of Leader–Advisor Relations......Page 90
4 The Eyes of Kesteven: How the Worldviews of Margaret Thatcher and Her Cabinet Influenced British Foreign Policy......Page 92
5 George W. Bush and the Vulcans: Leader–Advisor Relations and America's Response to the 9/11 Attacks......Page 116
Part IV: Applications: The Domain of International Security......Page 140
6 Reagan and Gorbachev: Altercasting at the End of the Cold War......Page 142
7 Crisis Deferred: An Operational Code Analysis of Chinese Leaders Across the Strait......Page 166
8 Links Among Beliefs and Personality Traits: The Distinctive Language of Terrorists......Page 186
Part V: Applications: The Domain of International Political Economy......Page 200
9 Economic Sanctions and Operational Code Analysis: Beliefs and the Use of Economic Coercion......Page 202
10 Economic Liberalism and the Operational Code Beliefs of U.S. Presidents: The Initiation of NAFTA Disputes, 1989–2002......Page 216
11 Bankers and Beliefs: The Political Psychology of the Asian Financial Crisis......Page 234
Part VI: Conclusion......Page 250
12 Structural International Relations Theories and the Future of Operational Code Analysis......Page 252
Bibliography......Page 264
Notes on Editors and Contributors......Page 290
B......Page 294
C......Page 295
F......Page 296
I......Page 297
M......Page 298
O......Page 299
R......Page 300
S......Page 301
U......Page 302
Z......Page 303
