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Who Fights for Reputation
Keren Yarhi-Milo
Abstract
This book provides an original framework, based on insights from psychology, to explain why some political leaders are more willing to use military force to defend their reputation than others. Rather than focusing on a leader's background, beliefs, bargaining skills, or biases, the book draws a systematic link between a trait called self-monitoring and foreign policy behavior. It examines self-monitoring among national leaders and advisers and shows that while high self-monitors modify their behavior strategically to cultivate image-enhancing status, low self-monitors are less likely to chang ... More
Keywords: military force, self-monitoring, foreign policy behavior, reputation, political leadership, military engagement, public prestige, US presidents
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 | Print ISBN-13: 9780691181288 |
| Published to Princeton Scholarship Online: May 2019 | DOI:10.23943/princeton/9780691181288.001.0001 |
