Crucible of Beliefs: Learning, Alliances, and World Wars

by Dan Reiter

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1501772074
• ISBN13: 9781501772078
• Release Date: February 2025
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 264 Pages