Robert Jervis has been a pioneering leader in the study of the
psychology of international politics for more than four decades.
How Statesmen Think presents his most important ideas on the
subject from across his career. This collection of revised and
updated essays applies, elaborates, and modifies his pathbreaking
work. The result is an indispensable book for students and scholars
of international relations. How Statesmen Think demonstrates that
expectations and political and psychological needs are the major
drivers of perceptions in international politics, as well as in
other arenas. Drawing on the increasing attention psychology is
paying to emotions, the book discusses how emotional needs help
structure beliefs. It also shows how decision-makers use multiple
shortcuts to seek and process information when making foreign
policy and national security judgments. For example, the desire to
conserve cognitive resources can cause decision-makers to look at
misleading indicators of military strength, and psychological
pressures can lead them to run particularly high risks. The book
also looks at how deterrent threats and counterpart promises often
fail because they are misperceived. How Statesmen Think examines
how these processes play out in many situations that arise in
foreign and security policy, including the threat of inadvertent
war, the development of domino beliefs, the formation and role of
national identities, and conflicts between intelligence
organizations and policymakers.
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