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"Appeasement is a controversial strategy of conflict management and resolution in world politics. Its reputation is sullied by foreign policy failures ending in war or defeat in which the appeasing state suffers diplomatic and military losses by making costly concessions to other states. Britain's appeasement policies toward Germany, Italy, and Japan in the 1930s are perhaps the most notorious examples of the patterns of failure associated with this strategy. Is appeasement's reputation deserved or is this strategy simply misunderstood and perhaps improperly applied? Role theory offers a general theoretical solution to the appeasement puzzle that addresses these questions, and the answers should be interesting to political scientists, historians, students, and practitioners of cooperation and conflict strategies in world politics. As a social-psychological theory of human behavior, role theory has the capacity to unite the insights of various existing theories of agency and structure in the domain of world politics. Demonstrating this claim is the methodological aim in this book and its main contribution to breaking new ground in international relations theory"--

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

"Role Contestation in Making Foreign Policy Decisions: Digraph and Game Theory Models" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Role Theory As an Empirical Theory of International Relations: From Metaphor to Formal Model" published on by Oxford University Press.

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

"Foreign Policy and Religion: An Overview" published on by Oxford University Press.

Rethinking Foreign Policy Analysis presents the definitive treatment to integrate theories of foreign policy analysis and international relations--addressing the agent-centered, micro-political study of decisions by leaders and the structure-oriented macro political study of state interactions in an international system.

'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