Psychology of Foreign Policy

Christer Pursiainen is Professor of Societal Security at the Arctic University of Norway (UiT) in Tromsø, Norway. Tuomas Forsberg is Director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies at the University of Helsinki and Professor of International Relations at Tampere University, Finland.

• Chapter 1:Integrating Psychology into International Relations.- Chapter 2:How rational are foreign policy decisions?.- Chapter 3:Prospects of loss and gain.- Chapter 4:Beliefs that shape decisions.- Chapter 5:Biased decisions.- Chapter 6:Emotional decisions.- Chapter 7:Personality matters.- Chapter 8:(Mis)trusted relations.- Chapter 9:Cognitive-psychological approaches from a comparative perspective.