1st Edition

Psychology, Strategy and Conflict Perceptions of Insecurity in International Relations

Edited By James W. Davis Copyright 2013
262 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

264 Pages
by Routledge

This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis of international relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century. International relations theory urgently needs strategies for coping with the growing complexity of the international system following the collapse of the US–Soviet bipolar stalemate, the multiple challenges to US unipolar hegemony, and the rise of... Read more

Foreword, Thomas C. Schelling  Introduction, James W. Davis  1. Both Fox and Hedgehog: The Art of Nesting Structural and Perceptual Perspectives, Jack L. Snyder  2. Realism, Randall Schweller  3. Political Psychology, Rose McDermott  4. Rational Signaling Revisited, Jonathan Mercer  5. Fear, Greed, and Financial Decision Making, Janice Gross Stein  6. The Nuclear Question, Marc Trachtenberg  7. The Meaning of Nuclear Evolution: China's Nuclear Modernization and US-China Security Relations, Thomas J. Christensen  8. Reflections on System, System Effects, and 19th Century International Politics as the Practice of Civic Association, Paul W. Schroeder  9. The Art of the Intelligence Autopsy, James J. Wirtz  10. The (Good) Person and the (Bad) Situation: Recapturing Innocence at the Expense of Responsibility?, James W. Davis  11. Force in Our Times, Robert Jervis

Biography

James W. Davis is Director of the Institute for Political Science and Professor for Political Science at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland.