Why Hawks Become Doves: Shimon Peres and Foreign Policy Change in Israel
By Guy Ziv
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By Guy Ziv
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Investigates how leaders' personalities shape important foreign policy shifts.
Why do hawkish leaders change course to pursue dovish policies? In Why Hawks Become Doves, Guy Ziv argues that conventional international relations theory is inadequate for explaining these momentous foreign policy shifts, because it underestimates the importance of leaders and their personalities. Applying insights from cognitive psychology, Ziv argues that decision-makers' cognitive structure-specifically, their...


