Power as a Factor of Threat Perception: Analysis in the Context of the Theory of State Image
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Smirnova A.G. Power as a Factor of Threat Perception: Analysis in the Context of the Theory of State Image. Vlast’ (The Authority). 2016. Vol. 22. No. 10. P. 66-72.
Abstract
In the article the issue of mechanisms, which determine correlation of power/might and threat perception, is under discussion through the context of the theory of state image. The author argues that threat perception is connected not only with the absolute indicators of might and power, but with its dynamic features which are revealed in the result of comparison of political values and status positions, reflected in the mutual images of states. In particular, perception of threat is based on the value differences and divergence of the principles of functioning of political institutions of interacting states. Besides, the subject comes to the conclusion about the existence of threat if the state performs actions, which result in strengthening its position on the international arena and/or weakening status of its interaction partner.
Keywords:
threat, image of state, power/might, comparison, political regime, status position
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Boulding K. 1959. National Images and International Systems. – The Journal of Conflict Resolution. Vol. 3. No 2. P. 120-131.
Cottam R.W. 1977. Foreign Policy Motivation. A General Theory and a Case Study. Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press. 384 p.
Cottam M., Dietz-Uhler B., Mastors E., Preston T. 2004. Introduction to Political Psychology. Mahwah, New Jersey, London: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Publishers. 343 p.
Deibel T.L. 2007. Foreign Affairs Strategy: Logic for American Statecraft. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 435 p.
Garcia-Retamero R., Müller S.M., Rousseau D.L. 2012. The Impact of Value Similarity and Power on the Perception of Threat. – Political Psychology. Vol. 33. No 2. P. 179-193.
Herrmann R.K., Fischerkeller M.P. 1995. Beyond the Enemy Image and Spiral Model: Cognitive-Strategic Research after the Cold War. – International Organization. Vol. 49. No 3. P. 415-450.
Larson D.W., Shevchenko A. 2010. Status Seekers. Chinese and Russian Responses to U.S. Primacy. – International Security. Vol. 34. No 4. P. 63-95.
McFaul M. 2004/2005. Democracy Promotion as World Value. – The Washington Quarterly. Vol. 28. No 1. P. 147–163.
Neack L. 2003. The New Foreign Policy: U.S. and Comparative Foreign Policy in the 21st Century. Lanham, Boulder, NY, Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 243 p.
Sechser T.S. 2011. Militarized Compellent Threats, 1918–2001. – Conflict Management and Peace Science. Vol. 28. No 4. P. 377-401.
Stein J.G. 2013. Threat Perception in International Relations. – The Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (ed. by L. Huddy, D.O. Sears, J.S. Levy). Oxford: Oxford University Press. P. 364-394.
Winter D. 2008. Psychological Factors Affecting Distortion of Threat in the Perception on the Intentions of Leaders. – Obrazy gosudarstv, nacij, liderov (pod red. E.B. Shestopal). M.: Aspekt-Press. S. 25-37.
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