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PublisherPrinceton University Press
ISBN-100691100497
ISBN-139780691100494
eBay Product ID (ePID)266494
Product Key Features
Number of Pages464 Pages
Publication NamePerception and Misperception in International Politics
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1976
SubjectInternational Relations / General
FeaturesLimited Edition
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science
AuthorRobert Jervis
SeriesCenter for International Affairs, Harvard University Ser.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight23.1 Oz
Item Length9.1 in
Item Width6.5 in
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Intended AudienceCollege Audience
LCCN76-003259
ReviewsThe best statement of the psychological position in the literature on international politics. Highly readable, informative, and thought-provoking. -- Library Journal, "The best statement of the psychological position in the literature on international politics. Highly readable, informative, and thought-provoking." -- Library Journal, The best statement of the psychological position in the literature on international politics. Highly readable, informative, and thought-provoking., "The best statement of the psychological position in the literature on international politics. Highly readable, informative, and thought-provoking."-- Library Journal
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal327
Edition DescriptionLimited
SynopsisThis study of perception and misperception in foreign policy was a landmark in the application of cognitive psychology to political decision making. The New York Times called it, in an article published nearly ten years after the book's appearance, "the seminal statement of principles underlying political psychology." The perspective established by Jervis remains an important counterpoint to structural explanations of international politics, and from it has developed a large literature on the psychology of leaders and the problems of decision making under conditions of incomplete information, stress, and cognitive bias. Jervis begins by describing the process of perception (for example, how decision makers learn from history) and then explores common forms of misperception (such as overestimating one's influence). Finally, he tests his ideas through a number of important events in international relations from nineteenth- and twentieth-century European history. In a contemporary application of Jervis's ideas, some argue that Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait in 1990 in part because he misread the signals of American leaders with regard to the independence of Kuwait. Also, leaders of the United States and Iraq in the run-up to the most recent Gulf War might have been operating under cognitive biases that made them value certain kinds of information more than others, whether or not the information was true. Jervis proved that, once a leader believed something, that perception would influence the way the leader perceived all other relevant information.
LC Classification NumberJX1391
