Pick one of the questions below. 500 words APA format.
For this forum, you were asked to read a series of articles on operational code. Select one of the following for your initial post:
Assignments:Complete all required forums.
Required Readings:
George, Alexander L. 1979. “The Causal Nexus Between Cognitive Beliefs and Decision-Making Behavior: The “Operational Code” Belief System.” In Psychological Models in International Politics. By L. Falkowski ed. 95-123. Boulder, CO: Westview. (28 pages)
Post, Jerrold M. Ed. 2006. The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders: With profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press. Read Chapter 9 and pages 324-328; 387-391. (38 pages)
Renshon, Jonathan. 2008. “Stability and Change in Belief Systems: The Operational Code of George W. Bush.” The Journal of Conflict Resolution 52, no. 6 (December): 820-849. (29 pages)
Malici, Akan and Johnna Malici. 2005. “The Operational Codes of Fidel Castro and Kim Il Sung: The Last Cold Warriors?” Political Psychology 26, no. 3: 387-412. (25 pages)
Recommended Optional Readings:
George, Alexander L. 1967. “The ‘Operational Code’: A Neglected Approach to the Study of Political Leaders and Decision-Making.” RM-5427-PR. The RAND Corporation. Santa Monica, CA. (September): 1-53.
George, Alexander L. 1969. “The ‘Operational Code’: A Neglected Approach to the Study of Political Leaders and Decision-Making.” International Studies Quarterly 13, no. 2 (June): 190-222.
Dyson, Stephen Benedict. 2001. “Drawing Policy Implications from the ‘Operational Code’ of a ‘New’ Political Actor: Russian President Vladimir Putin.” Policy Sciences 34: 329-346.
Marfleet, B. Gregory. 2000. “The Operational Code of John F. Kennedy During the Cuban Missile Crisis: A Comparison of Public and Private Rhetoric.” Political Psychology 21, no. 3: 545-558.
O’Reilly, K.P. 2012. “Leaders’ Perceptions and Nuclear Proliferation: A Political Psychology Approach to Proliferation.” Political Psychology 33, no. 6: 767-789.
Renshon, Jonathan. 2009. “When Public Statements Reveal Private Beliefs: Assessing Operational Codes at a Distance.” Political Psychology 30, no. 4: 649-661.
Schafer, Mark and Stephen G. Walker. 2006. “Democratic Leaders and the Democratic Peace: The Operational Codes of Tony Blair and Bill Clinton.” International Studies Quarterly 50, no. 3: 561-583.
Walker, Stephen G. 1983. “The Motivational Foundations of Belief Systems: A Re-analysis of the Operational Code Construct.” International Studies Quarterly 27:
Walker, Stephen G. 1990. “The Evolution of Operational Code Analysis.” Political Psychology 11, no. 2:403-418.
Walker, Stephen G. and L. Falkowski. 1984. “The Operational Code of U.S. Presidents and Secretaries of State: Motivational Foundations and Behavioral Consequences.” Political Psychology 5, no. 2:237-266.
Walker, Stephen G, and Mark Schafer. 2007. “Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson as Cultural Icons of U.S. Foreign Policy.” Political Psychology 28, no. 6 (December): 747-776.
Walker, Stephen G. Mark Schafer, and Michael D. Young. 1998. “Systematic Procedures for Operational Code Analysis: Measuring and Modeling Jimmy Carter’s Operational Code.” International Studies Quarterly 42, no. 1 (March): 175-189.
Walker, Stephen G. Mark Schafer, and Michael D. Young. 2003. “Profiling the Operational Codes of Political Leaders.” In The Psychological Assessment of Political Leaders: With Profiles of Saddam Hussein and Bill Clinton by Jerrold M. Post ed. 215-245. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
Walker, Stephen G. and Mark Schafer eds. 2006. Beliefs and Leadership in World Politics: Methods and Applications of Operational Code Analysis.
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