Reputation and Status as Motives for War
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6232871 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Allan Dafoe (0000-0003-0377-205X, Yale University), Jonathan Renshon (0000-0003-3688-8526, University of Wisconsin–Madison), Paul Huth (Department of Government and Politics, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 371-393 |
| Publication date | 2014-05-11 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Political Science (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1094-2939 • E-ISSN: 1545-1577 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev-polisci-071112-213421 |
| OpenAlex | W3124281141 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 165 |
| References cited | 109 |
Justifications for war often invoke reputational or social aspirations: the need to protect national honor, status, reputation for resolve, credibility, and respect. Studies of these motives struggle with a variety of challenges: their primary empirical manifestation consists of beliefs, agents have incentives to misrepresent these beliefs, their logic is context specific, and they meld intrinsic and instrumental motives. To help overcome these challenges, this review offers a general conceptual framework that integrates their strategic, cultural, and psychological logics. We summarize important findings and open questions, including (a) whether leaders care about their reputations and status, (b) how to address the tension between instrumental and intrinsic motives, (c) how observers draw inferences, (d) to whom and across what contextual breadth these inferences apply, and (e) how these relate to domestic audience costs. Many important, tractable questions remain for future studies to answer
Context (archaeology · Credibility · Economics · Honor · Incentive · Internet privacy · Law and economics · Microeconomics · Motivated reasoning · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public relations · Reputation · Social science · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics · Computer Science · Cultural Differences and Values · International Relations and Foreign Policy · Law · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Psychology
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A Continuous-Outcome Expected Utility Theory of War
The Common Priors Assumption
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The calculus of deterrence
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Emotional Beliefs
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Alliances
Treaty Compliance and Violation
The Turnover Trap
The Political Costs of Crisis Bargaining
The mismatch effect
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Audience Costs
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A Structural Theory of Aggression
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| Unique citing works | 165 |
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| Citations per year | 13,75 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2026 (13) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 164 |