Monographie
Crucible of beliefs : learning, alliances, and world wars / Dan Reiter
Type de contenu
- Texte
Type de médiation
- sans médiation
Type de support
- Volume
Titre(s)
- Crucible of beliefs : learning, alliances, and world wars / Dan Reiter
Auteur(s)
Editeur, producteur
- Ithaca (N.Y.) : London : Cornell University Press, cop. 1996
Description matérielle
- 1 volume (XII-232 pages) ; 24 cm
Collection
- Cornell studies in security affairs
ISBN
- 0-8014-3188-3
- 978-1-5017-7207-8
EAN
- 9780801431883
- 9781501772078 br.
Appartient à la collection
- Cornell studies in security affairs 2690-957X
Classification décimale Dewey
- 327.101
Note sur les bibliographies et les index
- Bibliographie p. 217-225
Résumé ou extrait
- How do foreign policymakers learn from history? When do states enter alliances? Why have some small powers chosen to enter alliances whereas others have stayed neutral? In Crucible of Beliefs, Dan Reiter uses work in social psychology and organization theory to build a formative-events model of learning in international politics. History does inform the decisions of policymakers, he suggests, but it is history of a specific sort, based on firsthand experience in major events such as wars. Tested against balance-of-threat theory, the leading realist explanation of alliance behavior, Reiter's formative-events model of learning emerges as a far better predictor of states' decisions. Crucible of Beliefs shows that, contrary to balance-of-threat theory, state leaders ignore the level of international threat and focus instead on avoiding past mistakes and repeating past successes. A serious blow to realism, these findings demonstrate that to understand the dynamics of world politics, it is essential to know how leaders learn from history.
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