The Crimean War Versus the Suez Crisis
The Crimean War (1853–1856) occurred during a period of rising happiness in the British Parliament, and the Suez Crisis of 1956, during a period of falling happiness, although the absolute happiness levels were similar in both times. This chapter finds th
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Peter S. Jenkins
War and Happiness
Peter S. Jenkins
War and Happiness The Role of Temperament in the Assessment of Resolve
Peter S. Jenkins Osgoode Hall Law School York University Toronto, ON, Canada
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To the loving memory of my parents, the intrepid and cosmopolitan Dr. Maya and Jack Jenkins
Preface
The similarity of the roles played by Belle Époque Britain and post-millennial America as declining hegemons highlights the eerie resemblance between the current geo-political environment and the prelude to World War I. One of my goals in writing this book is to mitigate the existential risk associated with this historical parallel by providing state leaders and diplomats with a greater ability to accurately assess whether they are overestimating or underestimating their adversaries’ resolve (their willingness to go to war). Hopefully, this knowledge will enable them to prevent the types of fatal misperceptions and miscalculations that occurred in the summer of 1914. The book’s analysis is based primarily on how the emotions of happiness and sadness affect the human tendency towards having a self-serving bias. I derived the necessary empirical data from the psycholinguistic text mining of debates, speeches, statements and memos of leaders, politicians and diplomats, both individually and in aggregated form, as w
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