By Anna Cornelia Beyer

This publication intends to reap insights from the self-discipline of Psychology, in its huge realizing, for program to overseas Relations. Although Psychology bargains an abundance of theories which are valuable for this objective, they've got to date remained principally untapped. In chapters on clash, hegemony, terrorism, psychological healthiness, worldwide cognizance, and peace proposals, Byer offers a synthesis of those complimentary disciplines. This cutting edge quantity offers the 1st contribution to the recent self-discipline of foreign Political Psychology. 

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10 As states exist under the condition of anarchy in an international system, they have to be self-preserving, as there is no one to protect them. 11 States’ behaviour is explained by the structure of the international system. The system is structured like a market, with no overarching authority, but rather with various states competing for power. Both anarchy and the system’s structure determine the behaviour of states and the conflict-proneness of the system. 12 States in the international system driven by their interest in survival and existing under anarchic conditions will find themselves under pressure to compete.

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This implies that states have to accumulate sufficient material capabilities, such as military power, economic strength, population size among others, or to form alliances to ensure protection from external threats, especially from attacks by other states, which could result in elimination from the system or loss of power in the international system at the very least. Both of the former behaviours are described as balance-of-power politics, pursued as either internal or external balancing. 14 For Mearsheimer, states are not interested in survival, but rather in power maximization, which is a way to ensure security via dominance.

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