Name: Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances, and World Wars
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Author: Reiter, Dan
ISBN: 9781501772078

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Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances, and World Wars

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Physical Book

Author

Dan Reiter

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Language

English

Pages

264

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781501772078

Synopsis "Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances, and World Wars"

How do foreign policy-makers 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 policy-makers, 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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