An examination of three cases based on 30,000 archival documents and intelligence reports shows strong support for the selective attention thesis and mixed support for two other approaches in international relations theory aimed at understanding how observers are likely to infer adversaries’ political intentions: the behavior thesis and the capabilities thesis. Over time, these organizations develop substantial knowledge on these material indicators that they then use to make predictions about an adversary's intentions. In contrast, intelligence organizations typically prioritize the collection and analysis of data on the adversary's military inventory. Policymakers often base their interpretations on their own theories, expectations, and needs, sometimes ignoring costly signals and paying more attention to information that, though less costly, is more vivid (i.e., personalized and emotionally involving). How do policymakers infer the long-term political intentions of their states' adversaries? A new approach to answering this question, the "selective attention thesis," posits that individual perceptual biases and organizational interests and practices influence which types of indicators a state's political leaders and its intelligence community regard as credible signals of an adversary’s intentions. After Fushis triumph over the Nokkers, he is.
(Aug.Winner of the Outstanding Article Award from the International History and Politics Section of the American Political Science Association The Beholder (, Kansatsu-sha, The Beholder ) is Fushis creator and the narrator of To Your Eternity. Nevertheless, Farber knows the heart, the groin and the conscience equally well, and this novel is an impressive display of his wisdom. The story itself is not new, and there are some unbelievable crannies here, such as the writer's project, a verbal study of nude models who come to his apartment to pose for him, or his decision to think of his lover as his daughter, a device reiterated throughout the second half of the book without any kind of substantial reckoning, even though it is the book's most controversial element. Farber's dialogue-heavy style, with its brief episodes, works perfectly in concert with the dance of flesh that drives this book like a well-paced film. The writer must also come to terms with a heart condition, a sign that his body could age beyond his capacity to love. Of course, the relationship moves beyond sex, as the lovers become well versed in each other's pasts. They even take Polaroids of each other, in increasingly erotic poses, all elegantly described in the book's pages, a smart metaphor for their awareness of their own violation and the pleasure they take in it. The student tells her dull, invisible husband that she is at her aunt's house, and the lovers "all the pleasures prove" with great abandon. Having first met informally to discuss a manuscript, the writer and the student fall deeply in lust after several brief, clandestine encounters. The collection examines the view of holiness in the Holy Land through the writings of pilgrims, travelers, and missionaries. This is an exclusive hardcover edition of.16. After a long silence, Farber ( A Lover's Question Curves of Pursuit) turns out a new novel, about a middle-aged writer's affair with a beautiful, sexy, married young art history scholar, offering a substantial investigation of illicit pleasures. Sprayed dusty pink edges Foiling on title text Limited Edition Hardcover Signed by the author.
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