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  • Exercises in Statistical Reasoning

    by Michael R. Schwob, Yunshan Duan, Beatrice Cantoni, Bernardo Flores-Lopez, Stephen G. Walker ...
    Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Texts in Statistical Science
    Students cultivate learning techniques in school that emphasize procedural problem solving and rote memorization. This leads to efficient problem solving for familiar problems. However, conducting novel research is an exercise in creative problem solving that is at odds with a procedural approach; it requires thinking deeply about the topic and crafting solutions to unique problems. It is not easy ... Read more

    $74.99 USD

  • Binary Role Theory and the Dynamics of World Politics

    Thinking Small

    by Stephen G. Walker ...
    This book develops a binary role theory of world politics extending from the micro-analysis of foreign policy to the macro-analysis of world politics. The effort employs analytical tools outside of role theory to extend role concepts from agents spatially to finitely generated systems and temporally to different phases and sequences of social interaction between pairs of agents as ego and alter. ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Operational Code Analysis and Foreign Policy Roles

    Crossing Simon’s Bridge

    Edited by Mark Schafer, Stephen G. Walker ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics
    In this book, senior scholars and a new generation of analysts present different applications of recent advances linking beliefs and decision-making, in the area of foreign policy analysis with strategic interactions in world politics.Divided into five parts, Part 1 identifies how the beliefs in the cognitive operational codes of individual leaders explain the political decisions of states. In ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes

    by Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici ...
    Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions made in the realm of US foreign policy—with a special focus on national security—over the past ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • Role Theory and the Cognitive Architecture of British Appeasement Decisions

    Symbolic and Strategic Interaction in World Politics

    by Stephen G. Walker ...
    Series series Role Theory and International Relations
    Appeasement is a controversial strategy of conflict management and resolution in world politics. Its reputation is sullied by foreign policy failures ending in war or defeat in which the appeasing state suffers diplomatic and military losses by making costly concessions to other states. Britain’s appeasement policies toward Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s are perhaps the most notorious ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • U.S. Presidents and Foreign Policy Mistakes

    by Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici ...
    Mistakes, in the form of bad decisions, are a common feature of every presidential administration, and their consequences run the gamut from unnecessary military spending, to missed opportunities for foreign policy advantage, to needless bloodshed. This book analyzes a range of presidential decisions made in the realm of US foreign policy—with a special focus on national security—over the past ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Role Theory and Role Conflict in U.S.-Iran Relations

    Enemies of Our Own Making

    by Akan Malici, Stephen G. Walker ...
    Series series Role Theory and International Relations
    U.S.-Iran relations continue to be an international security problem in the Middle East. These two countries could have been friends, but instead they have become enemies. Stating this thesis raises the following questions: Why are the United States and Iran enemies? How and when did this relationship come to be? When the relationship began to deteriorate, could it have been reversed? What lessons ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Multiple Paths to Knowledge in International Relations

    Methodology in the Study of Conflict Management and Conflict Resolution

    by Glenn Palmer, D Scott Bennett, Jacob Bercovitch, Stuart Bremer, Christopher K. Frain, Joseph R. Gochal, D Marc Kilgour0, Sarit Kraus1, Jack S. Levy2, T Clifton Morgan3, Patrick M. Regan4, Tara E. Santmire5, Philip A. Schrodt6, RichardJ Stoll7, Charles Taber8, R Harrison Wagner9, Stephen G. Walker0, Jonathan Wilkenfeld1 ...
    Series series Innovations in the Study of World Politics
    Multiple Paths to Knowledge in International Relations provides a uniquely valuable view of current approaches and findings in conflict studies. This volume showcases work informed by four powerful research tools: rational choice theory and game theory; simulation, experimentation, and artificial intelligence; quantitative studies; and case studies. Each research method is introduced and evaluated ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Rethinking Foreign Policy Analysis

    States, Leaders, and the Microfoundations of Behavioral International Relations

    Edited by Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, Mark Schafer ...
    Series series Role Theory and International Relations
    Stephen G. Walker, Akan Malici, and Mark Schafer present a definitive, social-psychological approach to integrating theories of foreign policy analysis and international relations—addressing the agent-centered, micro-political study of decisions by leaders and the structure-oriented, macro-political study of state interactions as a complex adaptive system. The links between the internal world of ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Woodrow Wilson and Colonel House: A Personality Study

    by Alexander L. George, Juliette L. George, Stephen G. Walker ...
    Woodrow Wilson’s presidential campaign in 1912 marked the beginning of a remarkable personal and political collaboration between Wilson and Colonel Edward M. House. The book traces the complexities of Wilson’s life and career along with his relationship with House, who for almost a decade was his closest behind-the-scenes advisor and confidant.Through the early years of Wilson’s boyhood, his rise ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Perception and Misperception in International Politics

    New Edition

    by Robert Jervis, Robert Jervis ...
    Series series Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
    Since its original publication in 1976, Perception and Misperception in International Politics has become a landmark book in its field, hailed by the New York Times as "the seminal statement of principles underlying political psychology." This new edition includes an extensive preface by the author reflecting on the book's lasting impact and legacy, particularly in the application of cognitive ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Negotiation and Conflict Management

    Essays on Theory and Practice

    by I. William Zartman ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Security and Conflict Management
    This book presents a series of essays by I. William Zartman outlining the evolution of the key concepts required for the study of negotiation and conflict management, such as formula, ripeness, pre-negotiation, mediation, power, process, intractability, escalation, and order.Responding to a lack of useful conceptualization for the analysis of international negotiation, Zartman has developed an ... Read more

    $77.99 USD