Beliefs and leadership in world politics : methods and applications of operational code analysis /

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.

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Other Authors: Schafer, Mark, professor, Walker, Stephen G., 1942-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Palgrave Macmillan, c2006.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Advances in foreign policy analysis.
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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.
Item Description:Includes index.
Physical Description:xiv, 288 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:Bibliography: p. [249]-274.
ISBN:9781403971821 (hbk.)
140397182X (hbk.)