Ebook: Thought and Action in Foreign Policy: Proceedings of the London Conference on Cognitive Process Models of Foreign Policy March 1973

Thought and Action in Foreign Policy.- Foreign Policy Decision-Makers Viewed Psychologically: Cognitive Processes Approaches.- The Process of Perception.- Finland as a “Friendly Neighbor” and Finland as an “Independent Western Democracy”: An Illustrative Case Study on the Problems of Image Policy.- Mapping the Elite’s Cognitive World: Swedish Elites and Security Policy Planning.- Minimizing Misperception.- Perceptional Organization.- Lying and the Stress for Cognitive Consistency.- How a Schema is Used to Interpret Information.- Decision Models.- Classical Theories of Foreign Policy Making as Cognitive Archetypes.- On Simulating Collective Security Regime Alternatives.- Foreign Policy Decision-Making in Finland and Austria: The Application of a Cognitive Process Model.