Robert Ed. Rieber

The Psychology of War and Peace: The Image of the Enemy Robert Ed. Rieber 1991 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: I. Theory and History.- 1. Substance and Shadow: Images of the Enemy.- 2. Some Philosophical Propadeutics toward a Psychology of War.- 3. Enemy Images in the United Nations Iraq and East West Conflicts.- 4. The Contributions of Psychology to International Understanding: Problems and Possibilities.- 5. Babes in Arms: Object Relations and Fantasies of Annihilation.- II. Empirical Research.- 6. The World Is a Dangerous Place: Images of the Enemy on Children s Television.- 7. Perceptions of the Soviet Union and the Arms Race: A Ten-Nation Cross-Cultural Study.- 8. Fearing the Army and the Enemy: Psychological Explanation of the Dutch Sociopolitical Reality.- 9. Image of the Enemy: Critical Parameters, Cultural Variations.- 10. Psychological Correlates of Threat Perception in West Germany, 1978 and 1981.- 11. Generalizational Learning and Paradigms of Military Threat in West Germany."Publisher Marketing: A collection of essays, reflecting both empirical-applied and theoretical-historical research approaches, on the issue of the psychosocial foundations of war and peace, with particular emphasis on the importance of the making (and unmaking) of enemies. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland,