Past failures and future problems: the psychology of irregular war

Reynolds, Phil

doi:10.1080/09592318.2013.866426

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“…Furthermore, fundamental attribution error is at play (cf. Beukel, 1992;Markedonov, & Suchkov, 2020;Reynolds, 2015): U.S. attributes China's military build-up to hostile intentions rather than circumstances (Moore, 2010). Same holds for Indonesian officials (Yeremia, 2020).…”

Section: The Political Psychology Of 'China Threat'mentioning

confidence: 99%

Current Approaches in Social Sciences

Babayiğit,

Gezgin,

Cesur

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Technological developments and globalization has changed human nature. This change directly affects all stages of human life. At this point, it becomes inevitable to carry out research on people and human life. All studies carried out in the field of Social Sciences aim to understand human, human life and human nature. In this work, which was put forward in order to understand the human, different studies from different disciplines were discussed and a step was tried to be built in order to reach this goal, albeit to some extent.

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Section: The Political Psychology Of 'China Threat'mentioning

confidence: 99%

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“…Within the context of irregular warfare, such as counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, and stability operations, Phil Reynolds argues that information is filtered and processed by cultural norms, with military planners and defense decision makers particularly susceptible to these influences. 115 According to Reynolds, culture affects the way military leaders “read” the security environment, perceive connections, and react to the enemy. In the cases of Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S. forces with strong independent mind-sets experienced cultural blindness when operating in people-centric conflicts because they often attributed “actions to individuals’ internal traits at a greater rate than to environmental factors.” 116 Because of their strong independent mind-set, many American soldiers easily overlooked the external constraints that influence the enemy’s behavior, such as role obligation and other social pressures common in collectivist cultures.…”

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A cultural neuroscience perspective on North Korean strategic culture

Friend

2018

Polit. life sci.

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Given the complexity of the current nuclear age and the absence of work on deterrence under true multipolarity, interdisciplinary models can provide new perspectives on tailored deterrence. Drawing from recent findings in the life sciences, this article offers a cultural neuroscience approach to deterrence decision-making, with special attention given to the ways in which culture interacts with cognition and the security environment to shape behavioral outcomes during conflict. Since North Korea remains largely a ''black box'' in international relations, a cultural neuroscience perspective can provide valuable insight into the effects of cultural conditioning on perception and cognition within the context of nuclear deterrence on the Korean Peninsula. Through an analysis of the bureaucratic and military structures, leadership characteristics, and institutional landscapes shaping North Korean strategic culture, this article examines the influences of historical memory and cultural values, such as collectivism, honor, and face-saving, on political decision-making in Pyongyang.

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A Wetland Management Planning: Problems and Threats Affecting Gökçeada (Aydıncık-Salt Lake) Lagoon

Bayrak¹

2023

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Gökçeada Lagoon is located in the southeast of Gökçeada, the largest island of Turkey. The lake, which is also called Aydıncık Lake or Salt Lake, showing the characteristics of a typical coastal lagoon with its fresh / salt water transition, coastal cords and its ecosystem, was included in the list of "Wetlands of National Importance" with 3.491 ha on 07/02/2019 and gained protection status. Agricultural activities are carried out on fertile alluvial lands around the lake, which was formed as a result of filling a depression area in the south of the island, which has a generally defective structure, with materials carried by waves, winds and rivers, and tourism activities are intensively carried out in the summer months on the coastal coast and dunes. In the lake, which is the centre of attention of local and foreign tourists, the salt layer that emerges with the withdrawal of water due to drought and evaporation in the summer season is used for health purposes by local and foreign tourists, but the use of salt has not yet been introduced to health tourism with certain laws. In the study, it is aimed to prepare a "lagoon management planning" for the solution of environmental and ecological problems that arise despite the protection status of the lake and the framework of coastal laws. It has been determined that the greatest pressure on the ecological, biological and morphological system around the lake is caused by intensive tourism activities, agricultural activities, pollution from domestic wastes and recently increasing construction works. In order to determine the use of the lagoon and the surrounding area, a land use map was prepared using the data of 2022. For coastal change detection, 1985, 2004, 2012 and 2020 satellite images were used to determine the shoreline change and it was determined that there was no change in the lake level. The lack of level change indicates that the lake is fed from different sources. For the management planning of the lagoon and its surroundings, SWOT analysis was applied, each land cover and use types were analysed separately and a wetland management plan was prepared.

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Past failures and future problems: the psychology of irregular war

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References 25 publications

Current Approaches in Social Sciences

Current Approaches in Social Sciences

A cultural neuroscience perspective on North Korean strategic culture

A Wetland Management Planning: Problems and Threats Affecting Gökçeada (Aydıncık-Salt Lake) Lagoon

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