Review: International Relations: Risk Taking and Decisionmaking
| Published date | 01 December 1998 |
| DOI | 10.1177/002070209805300423 |
| Date | 01 December 1998 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
Reviews
ed in
the
final
section
of
the
book
is
real
world
without
trivializing
or
especially
useful
for
students
of
corrupting
the
original
research
international
conflict.
The
authors findings.
This
requires
a
fair
degree
provide
a
wealth
of
tables
and
charts
of
sophistication
and
subtlety
cou-
on
the
varieties, sources,
and
poten- pled
with detailed
knowledge
of
tial
causes
of
international
conflict
both
the
psychological
experimental
as
well
as
the different
methods
of
and
historical
data.
Vertzberger's
third-party
intervention
and
dispute
new
book
on
foreign
military
inter-
resolution.
The
extraordinary ventions
is
a
pioneering
study
breadth and
detail
of
the
informa- which
rises
to
the
challenge
by
com-
tion
in
this
massive
volume
is
bining
a
solid
understanding
of
this
impressive
and
the
effort no
less
new
field
of
psychology
with
the
than
heroic,
study
of
political
statecraft.
He
explores
a
variety
of
case
studies
RISK
TAKING
AND
DECISIONMAKING
where
foreign
military
intervention
Foreign
military
intervention
occurred,
comparing
low/moderate
decisions
to
high
risk
cases
and
explaining
the
Yaacov
Y.I.
Vertzberger
risk-taking propensities
of
the
key
Stanford:
Stanford
University
Press,
decision-makers
concerned.
The
1998,
519pp, US$69.50
cloth,
book
offers
a
convincing
argument
US$24.95
paper
that
invention
choices
can
be
explained, in
part,
by
the
risk
judg-
Prospect
theory (the
study
of
how
ments
and
preferences
of
key
indi-
and
why
people
take
and
avoid
risk)
viduals.
The
book's
finding
that
is
one
of
the
newest
and
most
excit-
intervention
is
often
the
result
of
a
ing
areas
of
enquiry
in
the
social
risk
avoidance
strategy
is
likely
to
and
psychological
sciences.
In
spite surprise
as
is
its
finding
that
domes-
of
the pioneering
work
of
Amos
tic
as
opposed
to
international
Tversky
and
Daniel
Kahneman
in
norms
are
usually
more
important
the
early-to-mid-1980s,
only
rela-
in
justifying
the
costs
of
interven-
tively
recently
have
political
scien-
tion.
tists
begun
to
pay
serious
attention
to this rich
body
of
literature
by
SECURITY
psychologists. Part
of
the
research
A
new
framework
for
analysis
challenge
is
to take
hypotheses
that
Barry Buzan,
Ole
Waever,
and
Jaap
have
been
developed
under
rigor-
de
Wilde
ously
controlled
experimental
con-
Boulder
CO:
Lynne
Rienner,
1998,
ditions
and
apply
them
in
a
mean-
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way
to
the
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of
the
paper
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JOURNAL
Autumn
1998
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