Prof. Yaacov Vertzberger

Yaacov Vertzberger
Prof.
Yaacov
Vertzberger

Research Areas: International Relations Theory, South-East Asia, Political Economy, Political Psychology

Selected Publications:

Books , articles and work in progress
 
•  The Enduring Entente: Sino-Pakistani Relations 1960-1980, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University, Washington D.C., New York: Praeger Publishers, 1983.
•  Coastal States, Regional Powers, Superpowers and the Malacca-Singapore Straits, Berkeley: University of California, Institute of East Asian Studies, 1984.
•  Misperceptions in Foreign Policymaking: The Sino-Indian Conflict 1959-1962, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1984.
•  China's Southwestern Strategy: Encirclement and Counterencirclement, New York: Praeger Publishers, 1985.
•  The World in Their Minds: Information Processing, Cognition, and Perception in Foreign Policy Decisionmaking, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 1990.
•  Risk Taking and Decisionmaking: Foreign Military Intervention Decisions, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 1998.
•  "Foreign Policy Decision-Makers as Practical-Intuitive Historians: Applied History and Its Shortcomings," International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 30, No. 2, June 1986, pp. 223-247.
•  "The Antinomies of Collective Political Trauma: A Pre-Theory," Political Psychology, Vol. 18, No. 4, December 1997, pp. 863-876.
•  "Foreign Policy Analysis: Steady Progress and a Half Empty Glass," in M. Brecher and F. Harvey (eds.), Millennium Reflections on International Studies. Ann Arbor, MI: Michigan University Press, 2002, pp. 479-
    501.
•  "Towards an Architecture of a Global Disasters Management Regime: A Road Map," in A. Ahmed, J.P. Panda and P.K. Singh (eds.), Towards a New Asian Order. New Delhi: Shipra Publications, 2012, pp. 276-296.
•  The Making and Unmaking of National Strategic Policies (work in progress).