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Mistakes as a feature of everyday political life -- Foreign policy mistakes and the exercise of power -- Fearing losses too little : deterrence failures -- Fearing losses too much : false alarm failures -- Seeking gains too late : reassurance failures -- Seeking gains too soon : false hope failures -- Foreign policy analysis : maximizing rationality -- Foreign policy analysis : minimizing mistakes -- Avoiding foreign policy mistakes : extension and expansion -- Foreign policy dynamics : the Middle East and South Asia systems -- Some final thoughts : exploring the rationality frontier

Making friends and enemies in world politics -- The Iranian quest for independence -- Role theory and U.S.-Iran relations -- The oil nationalization crisis and the coup -- Remaking patron-client relations -- The Iranian Revolution and the hostage crisis -- Making enemies -- Iran's new leader and the September 11 attacks -- Making partners -- Appendix 1: Binary role theory's pin model of grand strategic orientations -- Appendix 2: Role indices in the verbs in context system of content analysis -- Appendix 3: Washington post event narrative, 1951-1953 -- Appendix 4: Washington post event narrative, 1978-1981 -- Appendix 5: Washington post event narrative, 1997-2002

Belief systems as causal mechanisms in world politics : an overview of operational code analysis / Stephen G. Walker and Mark Schafer -- Operational code analysis at a distance : the verbs in context system of content analysis / Mark Schafer and Stephen G. Walker -- A world of beliefs : modeling interactions among agents with different operational codes / B. Gregory Marfleet and Stephen G. Walker -- The eyes of Kesteven : how the worldviews of Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet influenced British foreign policy / Scott Crichlow -- George W. Bush and the Vulcans : leader-advisor relations and America's response to the 9/11 attacks / Sam Robison -- Reagan and Gorbachev : altercasting at the end of the Cold War / Akan Malici -- Crisis deferred : an operational code analysis of Chinese leaders across the strait / Huiyun Feng -- Links among beliefs and personality traits : the distinctive language of terrorists / Elena Lazarevska, Jayne M. Scholl and Michael D. Young -- Economic sanctions and operational code analysis : beliefs and the use of economic coercion / A. Cooper Drury -- Economic liberalism and the operational code beliefs of U.S. presidents : the initiation of NAFTA disputes, 1989-2002 / Matthew Stevenson -- Bankers and beliefs : the political psychology of the Asian financial crisis / Cameron G. Thies -- Structural international relations theories and the future of operational code analysis / Stephen G. Walker and Mark Schafer

'Rogue states' have been high on the international security agenda for many years but their theoretical significance for International Relations has remained poorly understood. In contrast to the bulk of writings on 'rogue states' that address them merely as a policy challenge, this book focuses on what we can learn from deviance about the international system and international society. Building on three basic insights developed in social constructivism and critical theory, this volume brings together interdisciplinary insights into the study of 'rogue states', exploring the role of comity and decency in labelling of 'rogue states', the impact labelling has on behaviour, how to treat a 'rogue state', how 'rogue' status can be withdrawn and what part the role of international law has to play in this process. This unique and wide-ranging study will appeal to scholars of Sociology, Criminology, Political Science, International Relations and International Law

Unpacking ego in role theory : vertical and horizontal role contestation and foreign policy / Cristian Cantir and Juliet Kaarbo -- Role contestation in the July 1914 crisis : the British and French cases / Joe D. Hagan -- Active independent or faithful ally? : the domestic contestation of national role conceptions in Australia after World War II / Klaus Brummer and Cameron G. Thies -- Role theory and Japanese security policy / Keiko Hirata -- Contesting Belgium's role in development cooperation / Marijke Breuning -- Domestic sources of changing Turkish foreign policy towards the MENA during the 2010s : a role theoretic approach / Özgür Özdamar -- Intervention : domestic contestation and Britain's national role conceptions / Jamie Gaskarth -- Belief systems and foreign policy roles : role contestation in U.S. foreign policy decisions / Stephen G. Walker, Mark Schafer, and John Beieler -- To be or not to be a state? : role contestation in the debate over Scottish independence / Ryan Beasley, Juliet Kaarbo, and Hannah Solomon-Strauss -- Multi-level role contestation : the EU in the Libyan crisis -- Nicole koenig -- Agents in structures : insights from cases of internal role contestation / Juliet Kaarbo and Cristian Cantir