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Title Beliefs and leadership in world politics : methods and applications of operational code analysis / edited by Mark Schafer and Stephen G. Walker
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : illustrations
Series Advances in foreign policy analysis
Advances in foreign policy analysis.
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
Summary Focusing on how policy makers make decisions in foreign policy, this book examines how beliefs are causal mechanisms steering decisions shaping leaders, perceptions of reality, and lead to cognitive and motivated biases that distort, block and recast incoming information from the environment
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-274) and index
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Subject International relations.
Communication in politics.
Security, International.
Game theory.
Ideology.
international relations.
ideology.
Diplomacy.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Globalization.
Politics and Government.
Communication in politics
Game theory
Ideology
International relations
Security, International
Form Electronic book
Author Schafer, Mark, professor
Walker, Stephen G., 1942-
LC no. 2006041582
ISBN 9781403983497
1403983496
9781403971821
140397182X
1281365696
9781281365699