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U.S. officials and the fall of the Shah : some safe contraction interpretations /
"Unlike the dominant trend in cognitive approach to foreign policy, the approach in this book is not guided by reflections in psychology. Like part of Jervis's work, it is inspired by reflections concerning the philosophy of science - not by Kuhn's or those of its most well-known crit...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
©2010.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Unlike the dominant trend in cognitive approach to foreign policy, the approach in this book is not guided by reflections in psychology. Like part of Jervis's work, it is inspired by reflections concerning the philosophy of science - not by Kuhn's or those of its most well-known critics, but by some more recent and formal reflections known as the AGM theory." "The AGM theory, proposed in the 1980s by Alchourron, Gardenfors, and Makinson, is the core of a most dynamic branch of logic, focusing on belief change. It has produced impressive formal results, with echoes in artificial intelligence, database management, and decision and game theory. This book shows how it can be used in political science." "The book includes three parts. Part One is a twenty-page review of the AGM theory, avoiding a number of pitfalls, inaccuracies, and misunderstandings that are common elsewhere. Part Two is a review of U.S.-Iranian relations under the reign of tile last shah, focusing on the last years of monarchy, and including an unconventional interpretation of U.S. intelligence performance in 1978. The essential part is Part Three, where an AGM model is tested and intriguing results obtained in connection with U.S. perceptions of the Iranian revolution."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 191 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-181) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780739133422 073913342X 1283613743 9781283613743 9786613926197 6613926191 |