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TitleIndicators, Predictors, and Determinants of Conflict Escalation and De-escalation
URLhttp://pubs.drdc.gc.ca/PDFS/unc90/p532...
DescriptionThis paper identifies a number of measures that have shown reliable relationships to decisional outcomes, specifically those related to the resolution of international conflicts through either war or peaceful negotiation. The patterns most consistently shown to precede the outbreak of war are a decrease in integrative complexity (a measure of the structure of thought), high power and low affiliation imagery (measures of motive strengths), and the belief that one can control events; the opposite pattern tends to precede peaceful resolutions.
Authors / EditorsSuedfeld,Peter; Cross, Ryan W.; Stewart,Michael
Date PublishedMay 2009
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