Overview
Proposes that leaders, politicians and diplomats who have depressive temperaments will tend to underestimate the resolve of their state’s adversaries and overestimate the resolve of its allies, while the converse will occur when those individuals have non-depressive temperaments
Argues that the emotional climate of a state’s national legislature changes significantly over the long term in response to exogenous factors, creating a greater risk of the outbreak of war being caused by the overestimation or underestimation of its adversary’s resolve
Presents a groundbreaking analysis of empirical data, from psycholinguistic text mining and semantic analysis of debates, speeches, statements and memos to detailed case studies of the origins of twelve wars with Anglo-American involvement from 1853 to 2003
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- assessment of resolve
- self-serving bias
- explanatory style
- psycholinguistic text-mining
- origin of wars
- British Hansard
- Congressional Record
- causal attributions
- happiness
- depression
- sadness
- depressive realism
- emotional climate
- cross-cultural research
- deterrence and spiral theory
- current calculus
- desires-based causal attribution
- prospect theory
- income inequality
- long-term trends in happiness
About this book
—Robert Jervis, author of How Statesmen Think
This groundbreaking book explains how the happiness levels of leaders, politicians and diplomats affect their assessments of the resolve of their state’s adversaries and allies. Its innovative methodology includes case studies of the origins of twelve wars with Anglo-American involvement from 1853 to 2003 and the psycholinguistic text mining of the British Hansard and the U.S. Congressional Record.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: War and Happiness
Book Subtitle: The Role of Temperament in the Assessment of Resolve
Authors: Peter S. Jenkins
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14078-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14077-9Published: 19 June 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-14080-9Published: 02 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-14078-6Published: 07 June 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 378
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour
Topics: Conflict Studies, Political Leadership, International Relations Theory, Psycholinguistics, Peace Studies, Diplomacy