@article{909449,
      recid = {909449},
      author = {He, Kai, and Feng, Huiyun,},
      title = {Prospect theory and foreign policy analysis in the Asia  Pacific rational leaders and risky behavior / [electronic  resource] :},
      publisher = {Routledge,},
      address = {New York :},
      pages = {xvi, 155 p.},
      year = {2013},
      abstract = {"Why does North Korea behave erratically in pursuing its  nuclear weapons program? Why did the United States prefer  bilateral alliances to multilateral ones in Asia after  World War II? Why did China become "nice"--no more military  coercion--in dealing with the pro-independence Taiwan  President Chen Shuibian after 2000? Why did China  compromise in the negotiation of the Chunxiao gas  exploration in 2008 while Japan became provocative later in  the Sino-Japanese disputes in the East China Sea? North  Korea's nuclear behavior, U.S. alliance strategy, China's  Taiwan policy, and Sino-Japanese territorial disputes are  all important examples of seemingly irrational foreign  policy decisions that have determined regional stability  and Asian security. By examining major events in Asian  security, this book investigates why and how leaders make  risky and seemingly irrational decisions in international  politics. The authors take the innovative step of  integrating the neoclassical realist framework in political  science and prospect theory in psychology. Their analysis  suggests that political leaders are more likely to take  risky actions when their vital interests and political  legitimacy are seriously threatened. For each case, the  authors first discuss the weaknesses of some of the  prevailing arguments, mainly from rationalist and  constructivist theorizing, and then offer an alternative  explanation based on their political legitimacy-prospect  theory model. This pioneering book tests and expands  prospect theory to the study of Asian security and  challenges traditional, expected-utility-based, rationalist  theories of foreign policy behavior"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/909449},
}