On the Warpath

The Psychology of Public Support for Armed Action

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

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Beskrivning

Why do we--not the politicians or the generals, but ordinary people--so often and so willingly support war, in the west and elsewhere? In search of an answer to that question, this book explores topics such as the personal appeal of war and wartime, the role of nationalism and other values in defense of which wars are fought, war as a male enterprise, images of the enemy, militarism and society, the role of propaganda, and the moral dilemma posed by war. While a focus on the public's attitude to war has been surprisingly neglected in psychology, this book combines psychology's few direct contributions on the subject with psychological theories to answer the book's key question. These theories include social identity, interpersonal contact, moral disengagement, system justification, relational models, and spiral conflict theories, plus concepts such as the authoritarian personality, social dominance orientation, and cognitive complexity versus simplicity. The book concludes by presenting an integration in the form of a Model of War Support, helping us understand one of the great issues facing us all, and opening up a relatively new area of psychology.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2024-04-22
Mått:162 x 240 x 18 mm
Vikt:581 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:OUP USA
ISBN:9780197676752

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Jim Orford is Emeritus Professor of Clinical and Community Psychology at The University of Birmingham. He is a longstanding, internationally recognized researcher and writer in community psychology and addiction. He edited the Journal of Community and Applied Social Psychology for 10 years and was a founding member of the European Community Psychology Association and the Community Psychology Section of the British Psychological Society. He has been a leading campaigner for gambling reform in Britain and for recognition of the family effects of addiction internationally. His work has been published in over 50 different peer-reviewed journals, and he has written or edited over 11 books, including the ground-breaking Excessive Appetites: A Psychological View of Addictions.

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Professor Orford's work illustrates the psychological dynamics that lead public to support militaristic policies and practices. In particular, it helps the reader to understand how the "national security" discourse is maintained by perceptions of intergroup threat and often fabricated accounts of "national insecurity". On the Warpath is a very important contribution to the literature.

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Introduction: Posing the Question, Why is War Supported?Chapter 1 Wars, Old and New, Costs and ControversiesChapter 2 The Personal Attraction of WarChapter 3 War in Defense of National and Other Identities and ValuesChapter 4 Thinking of Us and Them, Enemies and HeroesChapter 5 Embedded Militarism and Readiness for WarChapter 6 Engineering Consent: Propaganda and PersuasionChapter 7 Just War? War as a Moral DilemmaChapter 8 An Answer: Toward a Unified Understanding of War SupportBibliography

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