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Publications | Yaacov Y.I Vertzberger

Publications

Books:

  1. The Enduring Entente: Sino-Pakistani Relations 1960-1980, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983.
  2. Coastal States, Regional Powers, Superpowers and the Malacca-Singapore Straits, Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1984.
  3. Misperceptions in Foreign Policymaking: The Sino-Indian Conflict 1959-1962, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1984.
  4. China's Southwestern Strategy: Encirclement and Counterencirclement, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1985.
  5. The World in Their Minds: Information Processing, Cognition, and Perception in Foreign Policy Decisionmaking, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1990.
  6. Risk Taking and Decisionmaking: Foreign Military Intervention Decisions, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 1998.
  7. The Making and Unmaking of National Strategic Policies (in progress).

Short Monographs:

  1. The Suez of South-East Asia: The Malacca/Singapore Straits, Conflict Studies, Number 140, Institute for the Study of Conflict, London, 1982 (28 pp.).
  2. Towards an Architecture of a Global Disasters Management Regime (in progress).

Articles:

  1. "India's Border Crisis with China, 1962," Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, Vol. 3, Nos. 2 & 3, Winter-Spring 1978, pp. 117-142.
  2. Reprinted in: M. Brecher (ed.), Studies in Crisis Behavior, New Brunswick: Transaction Books, 1979.
  3. "The Peace Process in the Middle East Critically Reevaluated: An Israeli Perspective," Middle East Focus, Vol. 4, No. 6, March 1982, pp. 17-23.
  4. "Afghanistan in China's Policy," Problems of Communism, Vol. 31, No. 3, May-June 1982, pp. 1-23.
  5. "Malacca/Singapore Straits," Asian Survey, Vol. 22, No. 7, July 1982, pp. 609-629.
  6. "India's Strategic Posture and the Border War Defeat of 1962: A Case Study in Miscalculation," Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol. 5, No. 3, September 1982,
    pp. 370-392.
  7. Reprinted in S. Gates and K. Roy (eds.), Conventional Warfare in South Asia, 1947 to the Present, UK: Ashgate, 2011, pp. 3-25.
  8. "Misperception in International Politics: A Typological Framework for Analysis," International Interactions, Vol. 9, No. 3, October 1982, pp. 207-234.
  9. "India's Border Conflict with China: A Perceptual Analysis," Journal of Contemporary History, Vol. 17, No. 4, October 1982, pp. 607-631.
  10. "Sino-Afghan Relations 1949-1978," Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 6, No. 3, Spring 1983, pp. 32-43.
  11. "The Political Economy of Sino-Pakistani Relations: Trade and Aid 1963-1982," Asian Survey, Vol. 23, No. 5, May 1983, pp. 637-652.
  12. "South Asia, in G. Segal and W.B. Tow (eds.), Chinese Defence Policy, London: Macmillan Press, 1984, pp. 247-262.
  13. "Bureaucratic-Organizational Politics and Information Processing in a Developing State," International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 28, No. 1, March 1984, pp. 69-96.
  14. "Foreign Policy Decision-Makers as Practical-Intuitive Historians: Applied History and Its Shortcomings," International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 1986, pp. 223-247.
  15. "China's Diplomacy and Strategy Toward South Asia: From Benign Neglect to Prominence," Jerusalem Journal of International Relations, Vol. 8, Nos. 2-3, June 1986, pp. 100-141.
  16. "Foreign Military Intervention and National Capabilities: A Policy-Relevant Theoretical Analysis," International Interactions, Vol. 17, No. 4, 1992,
    pp. 349-373.
  17. "The International Milieu and Foreign Military Intervention: When and How Much Does the Milieu Matter?," Journal of Strategic Studies, Vol.17, No. 3, September 1994, pp. 139-179.
  18. "Rethinking and Reconceptualizing Risk in Foreign Policy Decisionmaking: A Sociocognitive Approach," Political Psychology, Vol. 16, No. 2, June 1995,
    pp. 347-380.
  19. "Commentary," in T.A. Mensah (ed.), Ocean Governance: Strategies and Approaches for the 21st Century, Honolulu, HI: Law of the Sea Institute, University of Hawaii, 1996, pp. 550-552.
  20. "Collective Risk-Taking: The Decisionmaking Group," in P. t' Hart, E. Stern and B. Sundelius (eds.), Beyond Groupthink: Political Group Dynamics and Foreign Policymaking. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press, 1997, pp. 275-307.
  21. "Between Hope and Fear: A Dialogue on the Peace Process in the Middle East and the Polarized Israeli Society," Political Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 3, December 1997, pp. 667-700 (with Daniel Bar-Tal).
  22. "The Antinomies of Collective Political Trauma: A Pre-Theory," Political Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 1997, pp. 863-876.
  23. "Making and Taking Risky Decisions," Cooperation and Conflict, Vol. 33, No. 1, March 1998, pp. 5-34.
  24. "Diseñando y Tomando Decisiones de Alto Riesgo, " in G.A. Mota Botello et al. (eds.), Psicologia Politica del Nuevo Siglo. Mexico City: SOMEPSO, 1999, pp. 489-514.
  25. "Foreign Policy Analysis: Steady Progress and a Half Empty Glass, " in M. Brecher and F. Harvey (eds.), Millennium Reflections on International Studies. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press, 2002, pp. 479-501.
  26. Reprinted in M. Brecher and F.P. Harvey (eds.), Conflict, Security, Foreign Policy and International Political Economy: Past Paths and Future Directions in Inter-national Studies. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press, 2002, pp. 27-55.
  27. "Ripe for Intervention? Stabilizing a Contested Political-Military Environment," in T. Hermann and E. Yuchtamn-Yaar (eds.), International Intervention in Protracted Conflicts: The Israeli-Palestinian Case. Tel-Aviv: The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel-Aviv University, 2003, pp. 9-31.
  28. "The Practice and Power of Collective Memory," International Studies Review, Vol. 7, No. 1, March 2005, pp. 117-121.
  29. "China-Pakistan Relation," in D. Pong et al. (eds.), Encyclopedia of Modern China, vol. 3. Detroit, MI: Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009, pp. 65-70.
  30. "Information Processing Perception and Misperception," in H. Lavine (ed.), Political Psychology, Vol. 3, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2010 (reprinted from The World in Their Minds, Stanford CA: Stanford University Press, 1990).
  31. "Towards an Architecture of a Global Disasters Management Regime: A Road Map," in A. Ahmed, J.P. Panda and P.K. Singh (eds.), Towards a New Asian Order. New Delhi: Shipra Publications, 2012, pp. 276-296.

Selected Conference Papers and Presentations:

  1. "Risk in Foreign Policy Decisionmaking: The Forgotten Dimension." Prepared for presentation at the 33rd Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Atlanta, Georgia, March 31 – April 4, 1992.
  2. "Facing Adversity: The Effects of Vividness, Planning and Commitment on Risk Preference Formation." Prepared for presentation at the 34th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Acapulco, Mexico, March 23-27, 1993.
  3. "The International Environment and Foreign Military Intervention: When and How Much Does It Matter?" Prepared for presentation at the 89th American Political Science Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.: September 2-5, 1993.
  4. "Collective Risk Taking: The Decisionmaking Group and Organization." Prepared for presentation at the 35th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Washington, D.C., March 28 – April 1, 1994.
  5. "Cognitive, Motivational and Personality Factors in Risk Taking." Prepared for presentation at the 36th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Chicago, IL., February 21-25, 1995.
  6. "Some Psychopolitical Sources of Entrapment Hindering Transition from Protracted Conflicts to Negotiations." Prepared for presentation at a conference on "Intractable Conflicts: The Israeli-Palestinian and South African Experiences," Tel-Aviv University, March 19-21, 1995.
  7. "Context and Decisionmaking: Causes and Consequences of Oversight." Prepared for presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 30 – July 3, 1996.
  8. "The Antinomies of Collective Political Trauma." Prepared for presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the International Society of Political Psychology, Vancouver, British Columbia, June 30 – July 3, 1996.
  9. "Making and Taking Risky Decisions." Prepared for presentation at the joint ISPP-SOMEPSO International Meeting on "Politics and Democracy on the Threshold of the 21st Century," Veracruz, Mexico, January 23-26, 1997.
    Revised paper prepared for presentation at the 93rd American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., August 28-31, 1997.
  10. "The Psychopolitics of Protracted Conflicts: Some Observations." Prepared for presentation at the 40th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Washington D.C., February 16-20, 1999.
  11. "Early Warning in a Turbulent World: Mapping a Vicious Policy Dilemma." Prepared for presentation at the Conference on "The Future of European Crisis Management," jointly organized by the Crisis Research Center, University of Leiden, and the Swedish Agency for Civil Emergency Planning, ÖCB, The Hague, November 7-9, 1999.
  12. "Foreign Policy Analysis." Prepared for presentation at the 41st Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Los Angeles, CA, March 14-18, 2000.
  13. "Military Intervention: The Balance of Considerations." Prepared for presentation at the conference on "International Intervention in the Middle East," The Tami Steinmatz Center for Peace Research, Tel-Aviv University, April 29, 2002.
  14. "Ripe for Intervention? Stabilizing a Contested Political-Military Environment." Prepared for presentation at the 44th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Portland, Oregon, February 25 – March 1, 2003.
  15. "Strategic Policy Reform: Policy Resilience, Learning and Change." Prepared for presentation at the 46th Annual Convention of the International Studies Association, Honolulu, Hawaii, March 1-5, 2005.
  16. Towards an Architecture of a Global Disasters Management Regime: A Global Response to a Global Problem." Prepared for presentation at the International Society of Political Psychology 33rd Annual Scientific Meeting, San Francisco, Ca, July 7-10, 2010.
  17. “Managing Protracted Frenimosities: Theorizing a Strategic Relationship”. Paper prepared for presentation at the 114th APSA Annual Meeting, Boston MA August 30 – September 2, 2018.
  18. “Against Their Best Interests: Psychological Pathologies of Entrapment in Intractable Conflicts”. Paper prepared for presentation at the 60th ISA Annual Convention. Toronto,Canada March 27-30, 2019.

Other Research Projects in Process:

1.    Psychopolitical Sources of Entrapment in Protracted Conflicts.

2.    Ethno-Nationalism and Conflict in South Asia: The Domestic-International Nexus.