Ben D Mor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1159713 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Ben D Mor |
| PRENOMES | Ben D |
| SOBRENOME | Mor |
| ASSINATURA | MOR B D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Haifa |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 20 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 96 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 19 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
The structure of rhetorical defense in public diplomacy: Israel’s social account of the 2010 Turkish flotilla incident
In public diplomacy, states are often called upon to defend themselves rhetorically when they are blamed by foreign actors for untoward action. Why do states engage in rhetorical defense and how do they go about it? To answer this question, the author employs social accounts theory to theorize the motivation and structure of rhetorical defense. Following a discussion of social accounts, he analyzes the tactics of blame avoidance and argues that t…
Defining the Ambiguous Situation: Context and Action in the 2006 Lebanon War
In studies of war and terrorism, an exclusive focus on action misses an important and logically prior stage of constitutive thinking and discursive contestation. Particularly in ambiguous contexts, which states often face when waging conflict against nonstate actors such as terrorist organizations, how the situation is defined is a key to understanding state decision making and action. This paper employs symbolic interactionist theory to analyze …
Credibility talk in public diplomacy
‘Politics has become a contest of competitive credibility’, argued Nye in Soft Power . Indeed, being perceived as honest and reliable is a necessary condition for obtaining and holding the attention of target audiences, as well as for effective persuasion, which is the objective of strategic communication. This task has become all the more difficult with the explosion of information sources and the discreditation efforts of opponents, but it is a…
Using Force to Save Face: The Performative Side of War
The recent turn to emotions in foreign policy research has resulted in several studies of humiliation and revenge as motivations for the use of force. This paper proposes a dramaturgical perspective to expand on this research agenda, focusing on the performative aspects of foreign policy as remedial action to restore spoiled identities. The basic argument is that the visibility and transparency generated by the communications and information revo…
Accounts and impression management in public diplomacy: Israeli justification of force during the 2006 Lebanon war
Public diplomacy has become a critical component in grand strategy, particularly where the use of force by a state engages the attention of foreign audiences. ‘Propaganda wars’ now accompany, if not dominate, military moves on the battlefield, as rival states – and non-state actors – compete for the support of world public opinion. But whereas the military aspects of armed conflicts have been closely studied, their rhetorical side is only now beg…
Power and Rhetorical Bargaining: The UN Security Council Debate on the Iraq War
The UN Security Council (UNSC) was an important arena of confrontation between the major powers during the recent pre-war crisis on Iraq, yet the realist-materialist focus of IR theory does not provide a useful perspective for analysing the debate and the ensuing defeat of American interests. This paper seeks to establish the meaning of “power” within a rhetorical context, applying insights from Searle's theory of institutional facts, constructiv…
The rhetoric of public diplomacy and propaganda wars: A view from self‐presentation theory
Efforts by governments to affect foreign public opinion through direct communication – and in competition with rival governments – have been a stable and consistent feature of international diplomacy since the turn of the twentieth century. Yet public diplomacy and its use in propaganda wars has not been sufficiently theorized, a lacuna that this article seeks to address by means of the social‐psychological theory of self‐presentation and impress…
Public Diplomacy in Grand Strategy
Despite the growing importance of public diplomacy in current international politics, its practice—and particularly its relationship with hard power—remains largely unexplored by diplomatic or strategic theory. This paper applies a grand-strategic perspective to analyze the challenges of “winning hearts and minds” in the new communications and normative environments. Israel's experience in the second Intifada serves to draw empirically based less…
Strategic Beliefs and the Formation of Enduring International Rivalries: Israel's National Security Conception, 1948-56
Knowledge about enduring rivalries has grown in the last decade, but their ideational foundations remain largely unexplored. A few studies have related the incrementalist pattern of rivalry formation to the impact of beliefs, but the same has not been attempted for the punctuated equilibrium pattern of evolution. The latter possibility is considered in this article, which argues that national security conceptions - as strategic belief systems - m…
The Onset of Enduring Rivalries: A Progress Report
Learning and the Evolution of Enduring International Rivalries: A Strategic Approach
Enduring international rivalries represent a set of relationships between states characterized by repeated conflict. This study explores their strategic evolution. We develop a game-theoretic model in which preferences of actors for any given situation are determined by two factors: satisfaction with the status quo and a perceived capability to change it or defend it. We explore patterns of strategic evolution based on learning and misperception …
Conflict in World Politics: Advances in the Study of Crises, War and Peace
S.J.Brams & J.M.Togman - Appendix: Survey of War Literature by Category - Bibliography - Index
Conflict in World Politics
The Middle East peace process and regional security
(1997). The Middle East peace process and regional security. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 20, Regional Security in the Middle East: Past, Present, and Future, pp. 172-202
Peace Initiatives and Public Opinion: The Domestic Context of Conflict Resolution
Peace initiatives to resolve enduring rivalries are launched in a two-level setting, where foreign policy imperatives interact with domestic imperatives. Public opinion, the support and mobilization of which is required for sustaining an extended conflict, plays a critical role in its resolution, especially when government preferences diverge from majority opinion. This article uses the war-proneness literature to define the domestic context in w…
Enduring Rivalries: The Early Years
This paper develops and tests a game-based model of enduring international rivalries. The model is embedded in a theoretical framework that conceives of interstate conflicts as series of temporally related games. Transition across games is governed by learning, which occurs when actors revise their perception of the opponent in response to previous interactions. The model shows that learning can sometimes produce patterns of repeated conflict. An…
Crisis Initiation and Misperception
This paper applies a theory-of-moves game model to analyze the effects of misperception on crisis initiation. The analysis indicates that the effects of misperception on initiation vary across player types and their level of dissatisfaction with the status quo: the initiation behavior of hard-line and middle-line players is adversely affected - they initiate crises they would otherwise avoid - at low and moderate levels of dissatisfaction, but no…
Rationality and the Analysis of International Conflict. Michael Nicholson
When is it Rational to be Magnanimous in Victory
There are two contending schools of thought on how a victor should treat a defeated party after a war or other major dispute. Whereas magnanimity might quell the desire of the defeated party for revenge, it might also be instrumental in the defeated party's resurrection. Similarly, the defeated party might face the conflicting choices of whether to cooperate or not cooperate with the victor. These interdependent choices are modeled by a generic 2…
Nasser's Decision-Making in the 1967 Middle East Crisis: A Rational-Choice Explanation
Nasser's behavior in the 1967 Middle East crisis has been variously explained in terms of decision-making deficiencies, personality-related pathologies, and uncontrolled escalation. This paper argues that such accounts are unsatisfactory. They are biased by their use of backward induction, which infers from Nasser's ultimate failure an inevitability to the escalation of the crisis. This inference puts a premium on the evaluation of decisions, rat…
Enduring Rivalries: The Early Years
This paper develops and tests a game-based model of enduring international rivalries. The model is embedded in a theoretical framework that conceives of interstate conflicts as series of temporally related games. Transition across games is governed by learning, which occurs when actors revise their perception of the opponent in response to previous interactions. The model shows that learning can sometimes produce patterns of repeated conflict. An…
Peace Initiatives and Public Opinion: The Domestic Context of Conflict Resolution
Peace initiatives to resolve enduring rivalries are launched in a two-level setting, where foreign policy imperatives interact with domestic imperatives. Public opinion, the support and mobilization of which is required for sustaining an extended conflict, plays a critical role in its resolution, especially when government preferences diverge from majority opinion. This article uses the war-proneness literature to define the domestic context in w…
Public Diplomacy in Grand Strategy
Despite the growing importance of public diplomacy in current international politics, its practice—and particularly its relationship with hard power—remains largely unexplored by diplomatic or strategic theory. This paper applies a grand-strategic perspective to analyze the challenges of “winning hearts and minds” in the new communications and normative environments. Israel's experience in the second Intifada serves to draw empirically based less…
The rhetoric of public diplomacy and propaganda wars: A view from self‐presentation theory
Efforts by governments to affect foreign public opinion through direct communication – and in competition with rival governments – have been a stable and consistent feature of international diplomacy since the turn of the twentieth century. Yet public diplomacy and its use in propaganda wars has not been sufficiently theorized, a lacuna that this article seeks to address by means of the social‐psychological theory of self‐presentation and impress…
Crisis Initiation and Misperception
This paper applies a theory-of-moves game model to analyze the effects of misperception on crisis initiation. The analysis indicates that the effects of misperception on initiation vary across player types and their level of dissatisfaction with the status quo: the initiation behavior of hard-line and middle-line players is adversely affected - they initiate crises they would otherwise avoid - at low and moderate levels of dissatisfaction, but no…
Accounts and impression management in public diplomacy: Israeli justification of force during the 2006 Lebanon war
Public diplomacy has become a critical component in grand strategy, particularly where the use of force by a state engages the attention of foreign audiences. ‘Propaganda wars’ now accompany, if not dominate, military moves on the battlefield, as rival states – and non-state actors – compete for the support of world public opinion. But whereas the military aspects of armed conflicts have been closely studied, their rhetorical side is only now beg…
Learning and the Evolution of Enduring International Rivalries: A Strategic Approach
Enduring international rivalries represent a set of relationships between states characterized by repeated conflict. This study explores their strategic evolution. We develop a game-theoretic model in which preferences of actors for any given situation are determined by two factors: satisfaction with the status quo and a perceived capability to change it or defend it. We explore patterns of strategic evolution based on learning and misperception …
When is it Rational to be Magnanimous in Victory
There are two contending schools of thought on how a victor should treat a defeated party after a war or other major dispute. Whereas magnanimity might quell the desire of the defeated party for revenge, it might also be instrumental in the defeated party's resurrection. Similarly, the defeated party might face the conflicting choices of whether to cooperate or not cooperate with the victor. These interdependent choices are modeled by a generic 2…
Nasser's Decision-Making in the 1967 Middle East Crisis: A Rational-Choice Explanation
Nasser's behavior in the 1967 Middle East crisis has been variously explained in terms of decision-making deficiencies, personality-related pathologies, and uncontrolled escalation. This paper argues that such accounts are unsatisfactory. They are biased by their use of backward induction, which infers from Nasser's ultimate failure an inevitability to the escalation of the crisis. This inference puts a premium on the evaluation of decisions, rat…
Credibility talk in public diplomacy
‘Politics has become a contest of competitive credibility’, argued Nye in Soft Power . Indeed, being perceived as honest and reliable is a necessary condition for obtaining and holding the attention of target audiences, as well as for effective persuasion, which is the objective of strategic communication. This task has become all the more difficult with the explosion of information sources and the discreditation efforts of opponents, but it is a…
The structure of rhetorical defense in public diplomacy: Israel’s social account of the 2010 Turkish flotilla incident
In public diplomacy, states are often called upon to defend themselves rhetorically when they are blamed by foreign actors for untoward action. Why do states engage in rhetorical defense and how do they go about it? To answer this question, the author employs social accounts theory to theorize the motivation and structure of rhetorical defense. Following a discussion of social accounts, he analyzes the tactics of blame avoidance and argues that t…
Power and Rhetorical Bargaining: The UN Security Council Debate on the Iraq War
The UN Security Council (UNSC) was an important arena of confrontation between the major powers during the recent pre-war crisis on Iraq, yet the realist-materialist focus of IR theory does not provide a useful perspective for analysing the debate and the ensuing defeat of American interests. This paper seeks to establish the meaning of “power” within a rhetorical context, applying insights from Searle's theory of institutional facts, constructiv…
The Onset of Enduring Rivalries: A Progress Report
Conflict in World Politics: Advances in the Study of Crises, War and Peace
S.J.Brams & J.M.Togman - Appendix: Survey of War Literature by Category - Bibliography - Index
Nasser's Decision-Making in the 1967 Middle East Crisis: A Rational-Choice Explanation
Nasser's behavior in the 1967 Middle East crisis has been variously explained in terms of decision-making deficiencies, personality-related pathologies, and uncontrolled escalation. This paper argues that such accounts are unsatisfactory. They are biased by their use of backward induction, which infers from Nasser's ultimate failure an inevitability to the escalation of the crisis. This inference puts a premium on the evaluation of decisions, rat…
Rationality and the Analysis of International Conflict. Michael Nicholson
When is it Rational to be Magnanimous in Victory
There are two contending schools of thought on how a victor should treat a defeated party after a war or other major dispute. Whereas magnanimity might quell the desire of the defeated party for revenge, it might also be instrumental in the defeated party's resurrection. Similarly, the defeated party might face the conflicting choices of whether to cooperate or not cooperate with the victor. These interdependent choices are modeled by a generic 2…
Crisis Initiation and Misperception
This paper applies a theory-of-moves game model to analyze the effects of misperception on crisis initiation. The analysis indicates that the effects of misperception on initiation vary across player types and their level of dissatisfaction with the status quo: the initiation behavior of hard-line and middle-line players is adversely affected - they initiate crises they would otherwise avoid - at low and moderate levels of dissatisfaction, but no…
Enduring Rivalries: The Early Years
This paper develops and tests a game-based model of enduring international rivalries. The model is embedded in a theoretical framework that conceives of interstate conflicts as series of temporally related games. Transition across games is governed by learning, which occurs when actors revise their perception of the opponent in response to previous interactions. The model shows that learning can sometimes produce patterns of repeated conflict. An…
The Middle East peace process and regional security
(1997). The Middle East peace process and regional security. Journal of Strategic Studies: Vol. 20, Regional Security in the Middle East: Past, Present, and Future, pp. 172-202
Peace Initiatives and Public Opinion: The Domestic Context of Conflict Resolution
Peace initiatives to resolve enduring rivalries are launched in a two-level setting, where foreign policy imperatives interact with domestic imperatives. Public opinion, the support and mobilization of which is required for sustaining an extended conflict, plays a critical role in its resolution, especially when government preferences diverge from majority opinion. This article uses the war-proneness literature to define the domestic context in w…
Conflict in World Politics
Learning and the Evolution of Enduring International Rivalries: A Strategic Approach
Enduring international rivalries represent a set of relationships between states characterized by repeated conflict. This study explores their strategic evolution. We develop a game-theoretic model in which preferences of actors for any given situation are determined by two factors: satisfaction with the status quo and a perceived capability to change it or defend it. We explore patterns of strategic evolution based on learning and misperception …
Conflict in World Politics: Advances in the Study of Crises, War and Peace
S.J.Brams & J.M.Togman - Appendix: Survey of War Literature by Category - Bibliography - Index
The Onset of Enduring Rivalries: A Progress Report
Strategic Beliefs and the Formation of Enduring International Rivalries: Israel's National Security Conception, 1948-56
Knowledge about enduring rivalries has grown in the last decade, but their ideational foundations remain largely unexplored. A few studies have related the incrementalist pattern of rivalry formation to the impact of beliefs, but the same has not been attempted for the punctuated equilibrium pattern of evolution. The latter possibility is considered in this article, which argues that national security conceptions - as strategic belief systems - m…
Public Diplomacy in Grand Strategy
Despite the growing importance of public diplomacy in current international politics, its practice—and particularly its relationship with hard power—remains largely unexplored by diplomatic or strategic theory. This paper applies a grand-strategic perspective to analyze the challenges of “winning hearts and minds” in the new communications and normative environments. Israel's experience in the second Intifada serves to draw empirically based less…
Power and Rhetorical Bargaining: The UN Security Council Debate on the Iraq War
The UN Security Council (UNSC) was an important arena of confrontation between the major powers during the recent pre-war crisis on Iraq, yet the realist-materialist focus of IR theory does not provide a useful perspective for analysing the debate and the ensuing defeat of American interests. This paper seeks to establish the meaning of “power” within a rhetorical context, applying insights from Searle's theory of institutional facts, constructiv…
The rhetoric of public diplomacy and propaganda wars: A view from self‐presentation theory
Efforts by governments to affect foreign public opinion through direct communication – and in competition with rival governments – have been a stable and consistent feature of international diplomacy since the turn of the twentieth century. Yet public diplomacy and its use in propaganda wars has not been sufficiently theorized, a lacuna that this article seeks to address by means of the social‐psychological theory of self‐presentation and impress…
Accounts and impression management in public diplomacy: Israeli justification of force during the 2006 Lebanon war
Public diplomacy has become a critical component in grand strategy, particularly where the use of force by a state engages the attention of foreign audiences. ‘Propaganda wars’ now accompany, if not dominate, military moves on the battlefield, as rival states – and non-state actors – compete for the support of world public opinion. But whereas the military aspects of armed conflicts have been closely studied, their rhetorical side is only now beg…
Credibility talk in public diplomacy
‘Politics has become a contest of competitive credibility’, argued Nye in Soft Power . Indeed, being perceived as honest and reliable is a necessary condition for obtaining and holding the attention of target audiences, as well as for effective persuasion, which is the objective of strategic communication. This task has become all the more difficult with the explosion of information sources and the discreditation efforts of opponents, but it is a…
Using Force to Save Face: The Performative Side of War
The recent turn to emotions in foreign policy research has resulted in several studies of humiliation and revenge as motivations for the use of force. This paper proposes a dramaturgical perspective to expand on this research agenda, focusing on the performative aspects of foreign policy as remedial action to restore spoiled identities. The basic argument is that the visibility and transparency generated by the communications and information revo…
The structure of rhetorical defense in public diplomacy: Israel’s social account of the 2010 Turkish flotilla incident
In public diplomacy, states are often called upon to defend themselves rhetorically when they are blamed by foreign actors for untoward action. Why do states engage in rhetorical defense and how do they go about it? To answer this question, the author employs social accounts theory to theorize the motivation and structure of rhetorical defense. Following a discussion of social accounts, he analyzes the tactics of blame avoidance and argues that t…
Defining the Ambiguous Situation: Context and Action in the 2006 Lebanon War
In studies of war and terrorism, an exclusive focus on action misses an important and logically prior stage of constitutive thinking and discursive contestation. Particularly in ambiguous contexts, which states often face when waging conflict against nonstate actors such as terrorist organizations, how the situation is defined is a key to understanding state decision making and action. This paper employs symbolic interactionist theory to analyze …
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