Jonathan Renshon

Department of Government

Harvard University

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1. ‣ Why Leaders Choose War: The Psychology of Prevention (Foreword by Alexander L. George)
   

Greenwood Press, 2006

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1. ‣“When Public Statements Reveal Private Beliefs: Assessing Operational Codes at a Distance”  Political Psychology 30 no. 4 (2009): 649-661.      
   

1. ‣“Mirroring Risk: The Cuban Missile Estimation” Intelligence and National Security 24 no. 3 (2009): 315-338.      
   

1. ‣“Assessing Capabilities in International Politics: Biased Overestimation and the Case of the Imaginary ‘Missile Gap’” Journal of Strategic Studies 32 no. 1 (2009): 115-147.        
   

1. ‣“Stability and Change in Belief Systems: The Operational Code of George W. Bush from Governor to Second Term President” Journal of Conflict Resolution 52 no. 8 (2008): 820-849.                              
   

1. ‣“The Theory and Practice of Foreign Policy Decision-Making” (with Stanley Renshon).  Political Psychology 29 no. 4 (2008): 509-536.   
   

1. ‣“Why Hawks Win” (with Daniel Kahneman) in Foreign Policy no. 158 (January/February 2007): 34-38.  [Reprinted in Conflict After the Cold War: Arguments on the Causes of War and Peace, 3rd Ed., Richard K. Betts, ed., (UK: Pearson/Longman Press, 2007) and The Best American Political Writing 2007, Royce Flippins, ed. (New York: PublicAffairs Press, 2007)]. 
   

1. ‣“Hawkish Biases” (With Daniel Kahneman) in Trevor Thrall and Jane Cramer (eds.) American Foreign Policy and the Politics of Fear: Threat Inflation Since 9/11 (New York: Routledge Press, forthcoming)
   

1. ‣“The Psychological Origins of Preventive War” in Stanley A. Renshon and Peter Suedfeld (eds.) Understanding the Bush Doctrine: Psychology and Strategy in an Age of Terrorism (New York: Routledge Press, 2007), 201-230. 

1. ‣Review of Dong Sun Lee’s book, Power Shifts, Strategy and War: Declining States and International Conflict, Forthcoming in Journal of Strategic Studies
   

1. ‣Review of Daryl Press’ book, Calculating Credibility: How Leaders Assess Military Threats, in Millennium Journal of International Studies 35 no. 2 (March, 2007): 479-481. 
   

1. ‣Review of Alexander Moen’s book, The Foreign Policy of George W. Bush: Values, Strategy and Loyalty, in Millennium Journal of International Studies 34 no. 2 (February, 2006): 646-648. 
   

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1. ‣ “Response to Thomas Wilkinson,” in Journal of Strategic Studies 31 no. 3 (June, 2008): 514.
   

1. ‣“Interview: Why Political Leaders Choose War, and the Psychology of War Prevention,” in Markos Kounalakis and Peter Laufer (eds.) Hope is a Tattered Flag: Voices of Reason and Change for the Post-Bush Era (CA: PoliPoint Press, 2008), 72-76. (Published transcript of a radio interview with “Washington Monthly on the Radio”)
   

1. ‣“The FP Debate: Should Hawks Win: Kahneman and Renshon Weigh In” (with Daniel Kahneman) ForeignPolicy.com (January 9, 2007)
   

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