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Social psychological dimensions of international conflict
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by Kelman, Herbert C.
Social-psychological concepts and findings have entered the mainstream of theory and research in international relations. Explorations of the social-psychological dimensions of international politics go back at least to the early 1930s. Research on foreign policy decision making and the cognitive, group, and organizational factors that help to shape it, negotiation and bargaining, enemy images, public opinion in the foreign policy process, deterrence and other forms of influence in international politics, and reconciliation draws extensively on social-psychological research and theory.
Publication Type: Published Paper
Publisher: U.S. Institute of Peace Press
Published Date: January 2007
Field of Interest: Global Issues
Kelman, Herbert C. "Social psychological dimensions of international conflict." In Peacemaking in international conflict: Methods and techniques (rev. ed). I.W. Zartman, ed. Washington, DC: U.S. Institute of Peace Press, 2007.