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dc.contributor.authorPischedda, Costantino
dc.date.accessioned2022-12-22T16:05:25Z
dc.date.available2022-12-22T16:05:25Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.identifierONIX_20221222_9788855185950_19
dc.identifier.issn2704-5919
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60357
dc.description.abstractRecent studies indicate that British appeasement towards Hitler followed a buying-time logic, i.e., it tried to postpone confrontation until Great Britain improved its military position through rearmament. However, this chapter shows that Germany actually extended its military edge over the appeasement years. Drawing on the literature on judgment and decision-making, the chapter theorizes that competition neglect – the tendency to focus myopically on one’s own capabilities and pay insufficient attention to those of the competition – may explain the puzzling gap between British policymakers’ plans and actual trends in the balance of power. The competition neglect thesis and an alternative explanation, positing the occurrence of miscalculation, are tested with a case study of British foreign policy towards Germany in 1937-38.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.relation.ispartofseriesStudi e saggi
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theoryen_US
dc.subject.otherpreventive war
dc.subject.othercompetition neglect
dc.subject.otherappeasement
dc.subject.otherbalance of power
dc.subject.otherbiases
dc.titleChapter The Appeasement Puzzle and Competition Neglect
dc.typechapter
oapen.identifier.doi10.36253/978-88-5518-595-0.11
oapen.relation.isPublishedBybf65d21a-78e5-4ba2-983a-dbfa90962870
oapen.relation.isbn9788855185950
oapen.series.number238
oapen.pages18
oapen.place.publicationFlorence


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