Chapter 1 Belief Systems as Causal Mechanisms in World Politics: An Overview of Operational Code Analysis

Chapter 2 Operational Code Analysis at a Distance: The Verbs in Context system of Content Analysis

Chapter 3 A World of Beliefs: Modeling Interactions Among Agents with Different Operational Codes

Chapter 4 The Eyes of Kesteven: How the Worldviews of Margaret Thatcher and Her Cabinet Influenced British Foreign Policy

Chapter 5 George W. Bush and the Vulcans: Leader-Advisor relations and America’s Response to the 9/11 Attacks

Chapter 6 Reagan and Gorbachev: Altercasting at the End of the Cold War

Chapter 7 Crisis Deferred: An Operational Code Analysis of Chinese Leaders Across the Strait

Chapter 8 Links Among Beliefs and Personality Traits: The Distinctive Language of Terrorists

Chapter 9 Economic Sanctions and Operational Code Analysis: Beliefs and the Use of Economic Coercion

Chapter 10 Economic Liberalism and the Operational Code Beliefs of U.S. Presidents: The Initiation of Nafta Disputes, 1989–2002

Chapter 11 Bankers and Beliefs: The Political Psychology of the Asian Financial Crisis