T Dörfler
Biographic Data
| ID | 674969 |
|---|---|
| NAME | T Dörfler |
| GIVEN NAMES | T |
| FAMILY NAME | Dörfler |
| SIGNATURE | DÖRFLER T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Potsdam |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6522-9215 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Prospect Theory, Groupthink, and Amplified Frames of Loss: Making Sense of Russia's Decision to Invade Ukraine
Russia's invasion of Ukraine entails extreme political risks for the Kremlin. The article explores how the decision to invade Ukraine, taken by Putin and his core group of advisers, can be explained. Focusing on psychological approaches to foreign policy, the article integrates prospect theory and groupthink perspectives. The argument is that groupthink tends to amplify risk-taking frames in the domain of loss, making frame reversal unlikely. The…
The Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and PMC–State Relations in Russian Foreign Policy: Explaining the Enlistment of Private Military Companies During the Ukraine War
Compartmentalised diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council: Breaking the impasse
Why Rules Matter: Shaping Security Council Sanctions Policy in Counterterrorism and Beyond
Sanctions are critical to the Security Council's efforts to fight terrorism. What is striking is that the Council's sanctions regimes are subject to detailed sets of rules and decision criteria. The scholarship on human rights in counterterrorism assumes that rights advocacy and court litigation have prompted this development. The article complements this literature by highlighting an unexplored internal driver of legal-regulatory decision-making…
The effect of expert recommendations on intergovernmental decision-making: North Korea, Iran, and non-proliferation sanctions in the Security Council
The article explores whether and to what extent expert recommendations affect decision-making within the Security Council and its North Korea and Iran sanctions regimes. The article first develops a rationalist theoretical argument to show why making many second-stage decisions, such as determining lists of items under export restrictions, subjects Security Council members to repeating coordination situations. Expert recommendations may provide f…
Analogy-based collective decision-making and incremental change in international organizations
We examine how analogy-based collective decision-making of member states contributes to the endogenous emergence of informal rules and the incremental change of international organizations (IOs). Decision-making by analogy is an important characteristic of day-to-day decision-making in IOs. Relating current decisions to previous ones through analogies drives incremental change and simultaneously reinforces organizational resilience. Whereas the f…
Precedent and doctrine in organisational decision-making: The power of informal institutional rules in the United Nations Security Council’s activities on terrorism
Habitus und Feld: Anregungen für eine Neuorientierung der geographischen Entwicklungsforschung auf der Grundlage von Bourdieus "Theorie der Praxis"
Der Beitrag plädiert für eine Neuorientierung der geographischen Entwicklungsforschung im Sinne einer geographischen Sozialforschung in Entwicklungsländern. Ausgangsbasis dafür ist eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der aktuellen entwicklungstheoretischen Diskussion und der Übertragung akteurszentrierter Ansätze in die Entwicklungsforschung. Die Kritik an diesen Ansätzen konzentriert sich auf deren unzureichend fundiertes Gesellschaftsverständ…
Why Rules Matter: Shaping Security Council Sanctions Policy in Counterterrorism and Beyond
Sanctions are critical to the Security Council's efforts to fight terrorism. What is striking is that the Council's sanctions regimes are subject to detailed sets of rules and decision criteria. The scholarship on human rights in counterterrorism assumes that rights advocacy and court litigation have prompted this development. The article complements this literature by highlighting an unexplored internal driver of legal-regulatory decision-making…
Analogy-based collective decision-making and incremental change in international organizations
We examine how analogy-based collective decision-making of member states contributes to the endogenous emergence of informal rules and the incremental change of international organizations (IOs). Decision-making by analogy is an important characteristic of day-to-day decision-making in IOs. Relating current decisions to previous ones through analogies drives incremental change and simultaneously reinforces organizational resilience. Whereas the f…
Precedent and doctrine in organisational decision-making: The power of informal institutional rules in the United Nations Security Council’s activities on terrorism
Habitus und Feld: Anregungen für eine Neuorientierung der geographischen Entwicklungsforschung auf der Grundlage von Bourdieus "Theorie der Praxis"
Der Beitrag plädiert für eine Neuorientierung der geographischen Entwicklungsforschung im Sinne einer geographischen Sozialforschung in Entwicklungsländern. Ausgangsbasis dafür ist eine kritische Auseinandersetzung mit der aktuellen entwicklungstheoretischen Diskussion und der Übertragung akteurszentrierter Ansätze in die Entwicklungsforschung. Die Kritik an diesen Ansätzen konzentriert sich auf deren unzureichend fundiertes Gesellschaftsverständ…
Precedent and doctrine in organisational decision-making: The power of informal institutional rules in the United Nations Security Council’s activities on terrorism
Analogy-based collective decision-making and incremental change in international organizations
We examine how analogy-based collective decision-making of member states contributes to the endogenous emergence of informal rules and the incremental change of international organizations (IOs). Decision-making by analogy is an important characteristic of day-to-day decision-making in IOs. Relating current decisions to previous ones through analogies drives incremental change and simultaneously reinforces organizational resilience. Whereas the f…
Why Rules Matter: Shaping Security Council Sanctions Policy in Counterterrorism and Beyond
Sanctions are critical to the Security Council's efforts to fight terrorism. What is striking is that the Council's sanctions regimes are subject to detailed sets of rules and decision criteria. The scholarship on human rights in counterterrorism assumes that rights advocacy and court litigation have prompted this development. The article complements this literature by highlighting an unexplored internal driver of legal-regulatory decision-making…
The effect of expert recommendations on intergovernmental decision-making: North Korea, Iran, and non-proliferation sanctions in the Security Council
The article explores whether and to what extent expert recommendations affect decision-making within the Security Council and its North Korea and Iran sanctions regimes. The article first develops a rationalist theoretical argument to show why making many second-stage decisions, such as determining lists of items under export restrictions, subjects Security Council members to repeating coordination situations. Expert recommendations may provide f…
Compartmentalised diplomacy in the United Nations Security Council: Breaking the impasse
The Wagner Group, Yevgeny Prigozhin, and PMC–State Relations in Russian Foreign Policy: Explaining the Enlistment of Private Military Companies During the Ukraine War
Prospect Theory, Groupthink, and Amplified Frames of Loss: Making Sense of Russia's Decision to Invade Ukraine
Russia's invasion of Ukraine entails extreme political risks for the Kremlin. The article explores how the decision to invade Ukraine, taken by Putin and his core group of advisers, can be explained. Focusing on psychological approaches to foreign policy, the article integrates prospect theory and groupthink perspectives. The argument is that groupthink tends to amplify risk-taking frames in the domain of loss, making frame reversal unlikely. The…
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