Reasoning of State: Realists, Romantics and Rationality in International Relations

by Brian C Rathbun and Brian C. Rathbun

Book Overview

Scholars and citizens tend to assume that rationality guides the decision-making of our leaders. Brian C. Rathbun suggests, however, that if we understand rationality to be a cognitive style premised on a commitment to objectivity and active deliberation, rational leaders are in fact the exception not the norm. Using a unique combination of methods including laboratory bargaining experiments, archival-based case studies, quantitative textual analysis...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108446183
• ISBN13: 9781108446181
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 9.4" x 9.0"