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AS STATED EARLIER, ANALYSTS OFTEN EMPLOY two approaches to explain political events: circumstance and choice. In literature, they correspond to the writings of Marx and Freud on the one hand, versus Dostoyevski and Machiavelli on the other hand.
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For a discussion of the effect of motivated and unmotivated biases on perception, see Robert Jervis, “Perceiving and Coping with Threat,” Robert Jervis, Ned Lebow, and Janice Gross Stein, eds., Psychology and Deterrence, (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985), 18–27.
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© 1999 Raymond Tanter and John Psarouthakis
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Tanter, R., Psarouthakis, J. (1999). Circumstance and Choice. In: Balancing in the Balkans. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780312292829_5
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