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The Psychology of Foreign Policy Christer Pursiainen

The Psychology of Foreign Policy By Christer Pursiainen

The Psychology of Foreign Policy by Christer Pursiainen


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This book focuses on foreign policy decision-making from the viewpoint of psychology.

The Psychology of Foreign Policy Summary

The Psychology of Foreign Policy by Christer Pursiainen

This book focuses on foreign policy decision-making from the viewpoint of psychology. Psychology is always present in human decision-making, constituted by its structural determinants but also playing its own agency-level constitutive and causal roles, and therefore it should be taken into account in any analysis of foreign policy decisions. The book analyses a wide variety of prominent psychological approaches, such as bounded rationality, prospect theory, belief systems, cognitive biases, emotions, personality theories and trust to the study of foreign policy, identifying their achievements and added value as well as their limitations from a comparative perspective. Understanding how leaders in world politics act requires us to consider recent advances in neuroscience, psychology and behavioral economics. As a whole, the book aims at better integrating various psychological theories into the study of international relations and foreign policy analysis, as partial explanations themselves but also as facets of more comprehensive theories. It also discusses practical lessons that the psychological approaches offer since ignoring psychology can be costly: decision-makers need to be able reflect on their own decision-making process as well as the perspectives of the others. Paying attention to the psychological factors in international relations is necessary for better understanding the microfoundations uponwhich such agency is based.

About Christer Pursiainen

Christer Pursiainen is Professor of Societal Security at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Troms, Norway.

Tuomas Forsberg is Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki and Professor of International Relations at Tampere University, Finland.


Table of Contents

Chapter 1:Integrating Psychology into International Relations.- Chapter 2:How rational are foreign policy decisions?.- Chapter 3:Prospects of loss and gain.- Chapter 4:Beliefs that shape decisions.- Chapter 5:Biased decisions.- Chapter 6:Emotional decisions.- Chapter 7:Personality matters.- Chapter 8:(Mis)trusted relations.- Chapter 9:Cognitive-psychological approaches from a comparative perspective.

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NPB9783030798895
9783030798895
3030798895
The Psychology of Foreign Policy by Christer Pursiainen
New
Paperback
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
2022-10-18
391
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