Psychology Strategy And Conflict

Author : James W. Davis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-02-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136219184

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Psychology, Strategy and Conflict by James W. Davis Pdf

This volume examines the explanatory nesting approach in the analysis of international relations and its continuing relevance in the 21st century. International relations theory urgently needs strategies for coping with the growing complexity of the international system following the collapse of the US–Soviet bipolar stalemate, the multiple challenges to US unipolar hegemony, and the rise of powerful non-Western actors. Over the course of this book, leading scholars of international relations and diplomatic history return to an approach to explanation pioneered in the writings of the late Robert Jervis. The approach calls for nesting multiple layers of explanation--systemic, strategic, and perceptual--in an integrated causal account that is simultaneously parsimonious and nuanced. Highlighting the logic of strategic interactions under uncertainty, it also integrates the effects of psychological biases and the unintended consequences of acting in complex systems to provide explanations that are at once theoretically rigorous and rich in empirical detail. Analyzing the current state of Realist theory, signaling under conditions of uncertainty and anarchy, the role of nuclear weapons in international politics, the role of cognition and emotions in economic and foreign policy decision making, and questions of responsibility in international affairs, the authors provide a compelling guide for the future of international relations theory. This book will be of much interest to students of international relations, foreign policy, and security studies.

Author : Francesco Aquilar,Mauro Galluccio
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781441974303

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Psychological and Political Strategies for Peace Negotiation by Francesco Aquilar,Mauro Galluccio Pdf

Peace is one of the most sought after commodities around the world, and as a result, individuals and countries employ a variety of tactics to obtain it. One of the most common practices used to accomplish peace is negotiation. With its elevated role in the dialogue surrounding peace, negotiation is often steeped in politics and focused on managing parties in conflict. However, the art and science of negotiation can and should be viewed more broadly to include a psychological and cognitive approach. Psychological and Political Strategies for Peace Negotiation gathers the foremost authors in the field and combines their expertise into a volume which addresses the complexity of peace negotiation strategies. To further underscore the importance of successful negotiation strategies, the editors have also included the unique perspective of authors with personal experience with political upheaval in Serbia and Lebanon. Though each chapter focuses on a different topic, they are integrated to create a foundation for future research and practice. Specific topics included in this volume embrace: • Changing minds and the multiple intelligence (MI) framework • Personal schemas in the negotiation process • Escalation of image in international conflicts • Representative decision making • Transformative leadership for peace negotiation Psychological and Political Strategies for Peace Negotiation is an essential reference for psychologists, negotiators, mediators, and conflict managers, as well as for students and researchers in international, cross-cultural and peace psychology studies.

Author : Daniel J. Canary,Sandra Lakey
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780805850635

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Strategic Conflict by Daniel J. Canary,Sandra Lakey Pdf

Strategic Conflict offers a research-based, accessible analysis of how people can manage conflict productively. Moving beyond the basics of conflict, it examines interpersonal situations in which conflict occurs and promotes strategic communicative responses based on the latest theoretical research. Daniel J. Canary and his colleagues add personal observations, media examples, and samples of actual interaction to provide concrete illustrations of the research findings. This comprehensive volume provides students with the tools to understand conflict in real-world contexts.

Author : Thomas C. Schelling
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1981-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674251861

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The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling Pdf

A series of closely interrelated essays on game theory, this book deals with an area in which progress has been least satisfactory—the situations where there is a common interest as well as conflict between adversaries: negotiations, war and threats of war, criminal deterrence, extortion, tacit bargaining. It proposes enlightening similarities between, for instance, maneuvering in limited war and in a traffic jam; deterring the Russians and one’s own children; the modern strategy of terror and the ancient institution of hostages.

Author : Linda Tropp
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012-07-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199747672

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The Oxford Handbook of Intergroup Conflict by Linda Tropp Pdf

With insightful chapters from key social psychologists and peace scholars, this handbook offers an integrative and extensive overview of critical questions, issues, processes, and strategies relevant to understanding and addressing intergroup conflict.

Author : Kenneth Payne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190227234

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The Psychology of Strategy by Kenneth Payne Pdf

How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers to these questions Kenneth Payne draws on the study of psychology to examine strategic behaviour during the Vietnam War. He explores the ways in which cognitive biases distort our sense of our own agency and our decision-making, arguing that much of the latter is emotional, shaped by unconscious processing and driven by a prickly concern for social esteem. The Nixon and Johnson administrations both proved susceptible to the processes that are familiar to students of modern neuroscience and psychology, but perhaps less appreciated within strategic studies. US strategists in the Vietnam era miscalculated in ways that would surprise rational theorists, but not evolutionary psychologists: they exaggerated the stakes, embraced risky and overly optimistic solutions, and failed to appreciate the limits of force to shatter the enemy's resolve. Their concern for reputation led to escalation, based on a flawed conception of what such escalation could achieve. The Vietnam conflict provides an excellent illustration that war is an inherently psychological phenomenon. This challenges abstract notions of rationality in strategic affairs, suggesting that the strategists -- much like the rest of us -- are strangers to themselves.

Author : K. Payne
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-06-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137428589

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The Psychology of Modern Conflict by K. Payne Pdf

What does modern warfare, as fought by liberal societies, have in common with our human evolution? This study posits an important relationship between the two we have evolved to fight, and traditional hunter-gatherer societies were often violent places. But we also evolved to cooperate, to feel empathy and to behave altruistically towards others.

Author : Herbert Blumberg,M. Valerie Kent,A. Paul Hare,Martin F. Davies
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-10-05
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461400257

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Small Group Research by Herbert Blumberg,M. Valerie Kent,A. Paul Hare,Martin F. Davies Pdf

Small group research is of particularly wide interest to people working in a fairly broad variety of areas concerned with understanding conflict, especially for practitioners and researchers concerned with conflict resolution, peace, and related areas. The editors will focus on six main topical areas of small group research, which include: - Cooperation, competition, and conflict resolution - Coalitions, bargaining, and games - Group dynamics and social cognition - The group and organization - Team performance - Intergroup relations

Author : Ronald J. Fisher
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781461232889

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The Social Psychology of Intergroup and International Conflict Resolution by Ronald J. Fisher Pdf

Author : Kenneth Payne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190612979

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The Psychology of Strategy by Kenneth Payne Pdf

How do strategists decide what they wish to achieve through war, and how they might accomplish it? And why does their understanding of violence regularly turn out to be wrong? In seeking answers to these questions Kenneth Payne draws on the study of psychology to examine strategic behaviour during the Vietnam War. He explores the ways in which cognitive biases distort our sense of our own agency and our decision-making, arguing that much of the latter is emotional, shaped by unconscious processing and driven by a prickly concern for social esteem. The Nixon and Johnson administrations both proved susceptible to the processes that are familiar to students of modern neuroscience and psychology, but perhaps less appreciated within strategic studies. US strategists in the Vietnam era miscalculated in ways that would surprise rational theorists, but not evolutionary psychologists: they exaggerated the stakes, embraced risky and overly optimistic solutions, and failed to appreciate the limits of force to shatter the enemy's resolve. Their concern for reputation led to escalation, based on a flawed conception of what such escalation could achieve. The Vietnam conflict provides an excellent illustration that war is an inherently psychological phenomenon. This challenges abstract notions of rationality in strategic affairs, suggesting that the strategists -- much like the rest of us -- are strangers to themselves.

Author : Joseph P. Forgas,Arie W. Kruglanski,Kipling D Williams
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-05-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781136636134

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The Psychology of Social Conflict and Aggression by Joseph P. Forgas,Arie W. Kruglanski,Kipling D Williams Pdf

This book offers an informative, scholarly yet readable overview of recent advances in research on the nature, antecedents, management, and consequences of interpersonal and intergroup conflict and aggression.

Author : Freddie Strasser,Paul Randolph
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2004-12-30
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 0826475035

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Mediation by Freddie Strasser,Paul Randolph Pdf

This book is about conflict resolution through mediation, from a psychological perspective. Although written in part from the point of view of litigation, the objective is to demonstrate how an appreciation of the psychological aspects of conflict and an understanding of the emotional strategies people adopt in dispute situations can assist both lawyers and non-lawyers in resolving conflicts. The book consists of three sections- a theoretical analysis of conflict and conflict resolution; a practical, legal and experiential explanation of mediation; and thirdly a series of mock mediations, comprehensively analysed from the viewpoint of the mediator and the parties, providing tips and guidance on the dilemmas and pitfalls that mediators encounter. The book is based on three fundamental tenets: that conflict is ever present, and cannot be eliminated but can be worked with; that the attitude and stance of the mediator towards the dispute can be of significance to the outcome; and above all that the use of psychotherapeutic tools can facilitate a paradigm shift in the parties' approach to conflict. The authors demonstrate how the mediator can move parties in dispute from a position of intransigent adversity to a working alliance, and thereby achieve a 'good enough ' resolution.

Author : Robin R. Vallacher,Peter T. Coleman,Andrzej Nowak,Lan Bui-Wrzosinska,Larry Liebovitch,Katharina Kugler,Andrea Bartoli
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783642352805

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Attracted to Conflict: Dynamic Foundations of Destructive Social Relations by Robin R. Vallacher,Peter T. Coleman,Andrzej Nowak,Lan Bui-Wrzosinska,Larry Liebovitch,Katharina Kugler,Andrea Bartoli Pdf

Conflict is inherent in virtually every aspect of human relations, from sport to parliamentary democracy, from fashion in the arts to paradigmatic challenges in the sciences, and from economic activity to intimate relationships. Yet, it can become among the most serious social problems humans face when it loses its constructive features and becomes protracted over time with no obvious means of resolution. This book addresses the subject of intractable social conflict from a new vantage point. Here, these types of conflict represent self-organizing phenomena, emerging quite naturally from the ongoing dynamics in human interaction at any scale—from the interpersonal to the international. Using the universal language and computational framework of nonlinear dynamical systems theory in combination with recent insights from social psychology, intractable conflict is understood as a system locked in special attractor states that constrain the thoughts and actions of the parties to the conflict. The emergence and maintenance of attractors for conflict can be described by means of formal models that incorporate the results of computer simulations, experiments, field research, and archival analyses. Multi-disciplinary research reflecting these approaches provides encouraging support for the dynamical systems perspective. Importantly, this text presents new views on conflict resolution. In contrast to traditional approaches that tend to focus on basic, short-lived cause-effect relations, the dynamical perspective emphasizes the temporal patterns and potential for emergence in destructive relations. Attractor deconstruction entails restoring complexity to a conflict scenario by isolating elements or changing the feedback loops among them. The creation of a latent attractor trades on the tendency toward multi-stability in dynamical systems and entails the consolidation of incongruent (positive) elements into a coherent structure. In the bifurcation scenario, factors are identified that can change the number and types of attractors in a conflict scenario. The implementation of these strategies may hold the key to unlocking intractable conflict, creating the potential for constructive social relations.

Author : M. Taillard,Holly Giscoppa
Publisher : Springer
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781137347329

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Psychology and Modern Warfare by M. Taillard,Holly Giscoppa Pdf

Throughout history, both military and commercial entities around the world have utilized these methods, and even since the formalization of psychological operations during WW2 our methods have improved greatly, but we are still only touching the 'tip of the iceberg', so to speak, of what is truly possible.

Author : Mari Fitzduff,Chris E. Stout
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:49015003163483

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The Psychology of Resolving Global Conflicts: Group and social factors by Mari Fitzduff,Chris E. Stout Pdf

Reveals the psychological intricacies of war, conflict resolution, and peace. Part of the "Contemporary Psychology" series, this book addresses ethnic conflict, torture and humiliation as a weapon, and how issues related to religion and gender contribute to violent conflict.