Reputation and International Politics / / Jonathan Mercer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Mercer, Jonathan,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

By approaching an important foreign policy issue from a new angle, Jonathan Mercer comes to a startling, controversial discovery: a nation's reputation is not worth fighting for. He presents the most comprehensive examination to date of what defines a reputation, when it is likely to emerge in international politics, and with what consequences. Mercer examines reputation formation in a series of crises before World War I. He tests competing arguments, one from deterrence theory, the other from social psychology, to see which better predicts and explains how reputations form. Extending his findings to address recent crises such as the Gulf War, he also considers how culture, gender, and nuclear weapons affect reputation. Throughout history, wars have been fought in the name of reputation. Mercer rebuts this politically powerful argument, shows that reputations form differently than we thought, and offers policy advice to decision-makers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1.Reputation And Deterrence Theory -- 2.Reputation And Psychology -- 3.The First Moroccan Crisis -- 4.The Bosnia-Herzegovina Crisis -- 5.The Agadir Crisis -- 6.Conclusion -- Index