This research examines the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from a new conceptual perspective that incorporates the psychology of threat into the study of inter-group conflict. The specific objective of the proposed work is to develop a better understanding of how inter-group percep…
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Until recently, intergroup relations research has undervalued the role of emotion. This dissertation examines how people‘s emotional reactions to challenges to their cherished values—symbolic threats—shape social attitudes. I argue that people respond with distinct emotions depe…
Traditional thinking on security fails to explain the security predicament of Third World states. These states, with their existence assured by international recognition, are not primarily concerned with externally generated threats. Their internal characteristics violate the te…
Identity has been a relatively popular theme in psychological-explanations of terrorism since the early 1980s. Its initial introduction relied upon neo-Freudian Erik Erikson's process of identification and contended that individuals who engaged in terrorism had adopted a negativ…
This dissertation probes the influence of perceptions of threat (and opportunity) on Soviet-Iranian mutual behaviour in the 1953-1962 period. Further, it delves into the origins and objects of these perceptions and examines the degree of their commensuration with the external se…
States need to match military strategies and political aims in order to deter attacks and win wars. When are they more or less likely to be integrated? This dissertation tests balance of power theory and organizational culture theory with the United States' conduct of the curren…
As a movement and as an organization, Hezbollah represents an emerging model of oppositional contention in which a group is capable of coordinating the use of violence, social services, and legitimate political discourse in a coherent campaign of resistance. While the use of vio…