Decision and Interaction in Crisis: A Model of International Crisis Behavior

This book provides an analysis of strategic behavior in international crises. Various aspects of crisis decision and interaction, such as initiation, misperception, deception, learning, and termination, are studied by means of a game model that incorporates psychological variables. This integrative approach is designed to narrow the gap between psychological and game-theoretical studies of crisis, which are generally considered to be incompatible. The utility of the approach is demonstrated by means of an in-depth case study of the 1967 Middle East crisis.

This study will be of interest to scholars in political science and international relations and political science, crisis theory, and game theory.

BEN D. MOR is Assistant Professor in International Relations and teaches in the Program of National Security of the University of Haifa and the National Defense College of the Israeli Defense Force at the University of Haifa in Israel. Previously, he has taught at New York University and the University of Nebraska, Lincoln. He has contributed to publications such as the Journal of Peace Research and Rationality and Society.