The psychology of conflict and international relations : a course plan and bibliography

Archibald, K. (Ed.) Strategic Interaction and Conflict. Berkeley: Institute of International Studies, University of California, 1966 .

Azrin, Nathan. Pain and aggression, Psychology Today, May, 1967, pp. 27-33.

Bandura, A. Adolescent Aggression. NY: Ronald , 1959.

Bandura, A. , D. Ross , and S. Ross. Transmission of aggression through imitation of aggressive models. Journal of Abnormal and Social Psych., 1961, 63, 575-82.

Bandura, A. , D. Ross , and S. Ross. Imitation of film-mediated aggressive models, Journal of Abnormal and Social Psych., 1963, 66, 3-11.

Bandura, A. , and R.H. Walters. Aggression. In H. W. Stevenson (ed.), Child Psychology: 62nd year book of the National Society for the Study of Education. Chicago, NSSE, Part I, pp. 364-415.

Berkowitz, L. Aggression: A Social Psychological Analysis. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962. (A good survey relevant to several sections of the course).

Berkowitz, L. The concept of aggressive drive. In L. Berkowitz (ed.), Advances in Experimental Social Psychology , 1965, 2, pp. 301-29.

Berkowitz, L. (ed.) Roots of Aggression: A Reexamination of the Frustration-Aggression Hypothesis. New York: Atherton, 1968.

Berkowitz, L. , and A. LePage. Weapons as aggression-eliciting stimuli, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 1967, 7 (2), 202-7.

Bohannan, Paul (ed.) Law and Warfare: Studies in the Anthropology of Conflict. Garden City: Natural History Press, 1967 (paperback).

Bramson, L. , and G. W. Goethals (eds.). War: Studies from Psychology, Sociology and Anthropology . New York: Basic Books, 1964. (A good collection from the past to the present; N. B. papers by Allport, W. James, Mead.)

Bernstein, Victor , and J. Gordon. The press and the Bay of Pigs. Columbia University Forum, 1967, 10 (3, Fall), 4-15.

Buss, A.H. Psychology of Aggression. New York: Wiley, 1961.

Calhoun, John B. Population density and social pathology, Scientific American , Feb. 1962, Reprint # 506.

Clements, C. D. , and D. B. Lindsley (eds.). Aggression and Defense. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967.

Denton, F.H. , and Warren Phillips . Some patterns in the history of violence. Journal of Conflict Resolution, 12 (2), June, 1968.

Doob, L.W. , and R. Bauer. Patriotism and Nationalism : Their Psychological Foundations . New Haven: Yale University Press , 1964.

Endleman, Shalom (ed.). Violence in the Streets . Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1968. (A collection of semi-technical papers on violence.)

Fried, M. , M. Harris , and R. Murphy (eds.). War: The Anthropology of Armed Conflict and Aggression. Garden City: Natural History Press, 1968 (also in paperback).

Gamson, William A. SIMSOC: Simulated Society. Participants' Manual with Selected Readings . New York: Free Press, 1969 (paperback).

Gilula, M.F. , and D.N. Daniels. Violence and man's struggle to adapt, Science, 1969, 164, (25 April) 396-405. (Stanford psychiatrists consider human violence; for letters of rebuttal see 164, 27 June, 1969, 1465-66).

Goldstein, Joel W. , and Howard M. Rosenfeld. Insecurity and preference for persons similar to oneself. Journal of Personality, 1969, 37 (2), pp. 253-68. (Persons reject and dislike dissimilar people and the more insecure they are the more likely they are to do this.)

Hamilton, Andrew. The arms race: too much of a bad thing. New York Times Magazine , Oct. 6, 1968, pp. 34+.

Hess, Robert D. , and Judith V. Torney. The Development of Political Attitudes in Children . Chicago: Aldine, 1967. (paperback edn., Anchor Books, 1968.)

Hoedemaker, E.D. Distrust and aggression: an interpersonal and international analogy . Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1968, 12 (1, March), 69-81.

Kluckhohn, C. , and H.A. Murray. Personality in Nature, Society and Culture. (2nd edn.) New York, Knopf, 1953. Includes: Hallowell, Aggression in Saulteaux Society, pp. 260-275;

Green-acre, Infant reactions to restraint, pp. 498-513;

Powdermaker, The channeling of Negro aggression by the cultural process, pp. 597-608.

Lapp, Ralph E. The Weapons Culture. New York: Norton, 1968.

Lorenz, K. On Aggression. New York: Bantam (03511) (paperback).

McNeil, E. B. (ed.). The Nature of Human Conflict . Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall , 1965.

Marshall, S.L.A. Men Against Fire. New York: Apollo , 1966 (paperback). (A general discusses the reluctance of soldiers on the front line to fire their weapons.)

Masotti, L. H. (ed.). Urban violence and disorder. Special Issue, American Behavioral Scientist, 1968, 2 (4). In book form: Riots and Rebellion. New York: Sage Publications, 1968. (A collection of assorted papers on the social psychology of riots.)

Masserman, J. H. (ed.). Violence and war: with clinical studies. Science and Psychoanalysis, vol. 6. New York: Grune and Stratton, 1963. (N. B. studies in Part I.)

Milgram, S. Some conditions of obedience and disobedience to authority. Human Relations, 1965, 18, pp. 57-76. (Award-winning experimental studies of extreme obedience.)

Montagu, M. F. A. (ed.). Man and Aggression . New York: Oxford University Press , 1968. (Papers refuting the ethologist's view that aggression is innate in man.)

Moyer, K.E. A preliminary physiological model of aggressive behavior. In J. P. Scott and B. E. Eleftheriou , The Physiology of Fighting and Defeat . Chicago: University of Chicago Press, in press. (Carnegie-Mellon Univ. Report No. 68-32; discusses types of aggression, underlying physiological mechanisms and implications for control of aggression.)

Richardson, L.F. Statistics of Deadly Quarrels. Pittsburgh: Boxwood Press, 1960.

Scott, J.P. Aggression. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958.

Sherif, M. In Common Predicament: Social Psychology of Intergroup Conflict and Cooperation . Boston: Houghton Mifflin , 1966.

Sherif, M. , and C. Sherif. Groups in Harmony and Tension: An Integration of Studies on Intergroup Relations. New York: Harper, 1953.

Stewart, T.D. Fossil evidence of human violence, Transaction, 1969, 6 (7, May), 48-53. (Both cannibalism and warfare were practiced by early man but surgery may have been also.)

Storr, Anthony. Human Aggression. New York: Atheneum , 1968. (A psychoanalytic view.)

Stouffer, S. , et al. The American Soldier. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1949. (Multi-volume study of data from World War II.)

Stouffer, S.A. A study of attitudes, Scientific American, May 1949.

Tinbergen, N. On war and peace in animal and man: an ethologist's approach to the biology of aggression. Science, 1968, 160, 1411-18.

Waltz, K. Man, the State, and War. New York: Columbia University Press, 1959.

Wertham, Fredrick. A Sign for Cain. New York: Paperback Library (65-033), 1966.

Wertham, Fredrick. The Show of Violence. New York: Bantam Books, 1967 (paperback).

Winter, J.A. , J. Rabow , and M. Chesler. Vital Problems for American Society: Meanings and Means . New York: Random House, 1968.

Relevant papers include: J. Toby , Is punishment necessary? p. 150;

Daniel J. Elazar, The shaping of intergovernmental relations in the 20th century , p. 95;

A. Forster , Violence on the fanatical left and right, 229;

P. Selznick , Cooptation, p. 239;

L.M. Killiam and C. Grigg , The spector of conflict;

D. Spitz , Democracy and the problem of civil disobedience, p. 253;

R.C. Angell , Defense of what? p. 272;

M. Pilisuk and T. Hayden , Is there a military-industrial complex which prevents peace? p. 281;

J.W. Fulbright , The cold war in American life, p. 312.

Wright, Quincy , A Study of War. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1965.

Ziferstein, Isidore. Psychological habituation to war: a sociopsychological case study , American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 1967 , 37, (3, April), 457-468.

Bauer, Raymond A. Social psychology and the study of policy formation, American Psychologist, 1966, 21 (10), 933-42.

Boulding, K.E. Conflict and Defense. New York: Harper, 1962.

Cantril, H. (ed.). Tensions That Cause Wars . Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1950.

Cantril, Hadley. Human Nature and Political Systems. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1961 .

Cantril, Hadley. The Pattern of Human Concerns. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 1966 .

Cantril, H. , and W. Buchanan. How Nations See Each Other. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 1953.

Davis, Robert H. The international influence process : how relevant is the contribution of psychologists ? American Psychologist, 1966 , 21, 236-43. (Models, simulation, gaming and problems of generalizing from research are discussed.)

Escalona, S.K. Children and the Threat of Nuclear War. New York : Child Study Association, 1962 .

Etzioni, Amitai. Social-psychological aspects of international relations. In G. Lindzey and E. Aronson (eds.), Handbook of Social Psychology, 2nd ed., vol. 5. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, 1970. (A recommended general article.)

Feierabend, I. , and R. Feierabend. Conflict, crisis and collision: a study of international stability, Psychology Today (May, 1968), 26-32.

Finney, John. Tonkin Gulf attack: A case study in how not to go to war, New Republic, January 27, 1968, 19-22.

Fisher, R. (ed.). International Conflict and Behavioral Science. New York: Basic Books, 1964.

Frank, J.D. Breaking the thought barrier: psychological challenges of the nuclear age , Psychiatry, 1960,23,245-66.

Frank, J.D. Sanity and Survival: Psychological Aspects of War and Peace. New York: Random House, 1968 (also in paperback. Perhaps the best short overview of the whole area.)

Frank, J.D. The face of the enemy, Psychology Today, November 1968.

Journal of Social Issues. Conflict and community in the international system (whole issue, January 1967.

Kelman, H. (ed.). International Behavior: A Sociopsychological Analysis. New York: Holt, 1965. (An excellent source; all students should look over the table of contents for relevant material.)

Kirscht, John P. , and Ronald C. Dillehay. Dimensions of Authoritarianism. Lexington : University of Kentucky Press, 1967. (A literature review containing sections relevant to political attitudes.)

Lifton, Robert J. America in Vietnam—the circle of deception. Transaction , March 1968, 10-19.

Mills, C. Wright. The Causes of World War III. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1958.

McLuhan, Marshall. War and Peace in the Global Village. New York: Bantam Books, 1968 (paperback).

Naroll, Raoul. Does military power deter? Transaction, Jan./Feb. 1966, 3 (2), 14-20. (Primitive combat patterns shed light on current prospects for peace.)

Pear, T. H. (ed.). Psychological Factors of Peace and War. New York: Philosophical Library, 1950.

Polsby, N.W. Hawks, doves and the press. Transaction, April 1967, 35-41.

Pye, L.W. The Spirit of Chinese Politics: A Psycho-cultural Study of the Authority Crisis in Political Development. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1968.

Rapoport, A. Fights, Games and Debates. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1960.

Raser, John R. The failure of fail-safe. Transaction, 6 (5), January 1969, 11-19. ("Man has a built-in panic button that keeps the problem of 'accidental' war ominous reality.")

Rudin, Stanley A. The personal price of national glory. Transaction , Sept./Oct. 1965, 2 (6), 4-9. (Deaths from psychosomatic causes increase with a nation's rise to power.)

Schwebel, M. (ed.). Behavioral Science and Human Survival. Palo Alto, Calif.: Science and Behavior Books, 1968 (paperback).

Scott, William A. Rationality and non-rationality of international attitudes, Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2, March 1958, 8-16. (Bobbs-Merrill reprint PS-254.)

Singer, J. D. (ed.). Human Behavior and International Politics. Chicago: Rand McNally , 1965.

Sperazzo, G. (ed.). Psychology and International Relations. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1965.

Stagner, Ross. Psychological Aspects of International Conflict. Belmont, Calif.: Brooks/Cole, 1967 (paperback).

Watson, Goodwin. Social psychology of international relations, Chapter 14 in his book, Social Psychology: Issues and Insights. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966. (A good general chapter for suggesting topic leads.)

Wedge, Bryant. Psychiatry and international affairs, Science, 1967, 157 (July 21), 281-6.

Wedge, Bryant. Khrushchev at a distance—a study of a public personality, Transaction, 1968, 5 (10, October).

White, R.K. Misperception and the Vietnam war, Journal of Social Issues , 1966, 12 (3, July).

White, R.K. Nobody Wanted War: Misperception in Vietnam and other wars. Garden City: Doubleday, 1968. (A revision of White, 1966.) Wolfenstein , Martha , and G. Kilbert (eds.). Children and the Death of a President: Multidisciplinary Studies. New York: Anchor, Doubleday (A543).

Assorted writers: Editorial and reviews of Report from Iron Mountain. Transaction, Jan./Feb. 1968, pp. 6-20. (Discussion of a controversial report supposedly commissioned by the US government on the problems for the US of permanent peace. Report reference: Lewin, Leonard C. Report from Iron Mountain on the Possibility and Desirability of Peace. New York: Dial Press, 1967. In the same issue of Transaction note "The Kennedy Experiment ", pp. 3-4; cf. Etzioni, 1967).

Carter, Luther, J. Arms control: demand for decisions/nuclear weapons. Science , 1968, 162, (Dec. 6), 1102-5.

Committee on Social Issues, Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry. Psychiatric aspects of the prevention of nuclear war, 1964.

Craig, J.H. , and Marge Craig. No-lose: a moral alternative to negotiations. Unpublished, 1968. (Available from author at 3012 Passmore Drive, Hollywood, Calif. 90028)

Etzioni, A. The Hard Way to Peace. New York: Collier Books, 1962 (paperback).

Etzioni, A. A "peacemonger" answers some questions. New York Times Magazine , April 21, 1963.

Etzioni, A. Winning Without War. Garden City: Anchor Books, 1964 (paperback).

Etzioni, A. The Kennedy experiment. Western Political Quarterly , 1967, 20 (2, June). (Applies the idea of reciprocating reductions of international tensions to US-USSR relations under President Kennedy.)

Johnson, D.W. , and R.J. Lewicki. The initiation of superordinate goals. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science, 1969, 5 (1), 9-24.

Kriesberg, Louis. How a plowing contest may ease world tensions. Transaction , 1967, 5 (2, Dec.), 36.

Leontief, W.W. , and M. Hoffenberg. The economic effects of disarmament, Scientific American, April 1961. Reprint # 611.

Nelson, Bryce. Arms control: demand for decisions/chemical-biological warfare (CBW . Science, 1968, 162 (Dec. 6), 1102-8.

Osgood, C.E. An Alternative to War or Surrender. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1962. (Also in paperback.)

Osgood, C.E. Perspective in Foreign Policy. Palo Alto, Calif. : Pacific Books, 1966 (2nd edn.).

Rosenberg, M.J. New ways to reduce distrust between the US and Russia, Transaction , April 1968.

Russett, B.M. , and C.C. Cooper. The cold war politics of arms control. Transaction, 1965, 2 (July/Aug.), 3-6.

Singer, J.D. Deterrence, Arms Control and Disarmament. Columbus : Ohio State University Press, 1962.

Thirteen Experts in International Law, in cooperation with the United Nations. International Law in a Changing World. New York: Oceana Library of the UN, 1963.

Van Atta, Lester C. Arms control: human control. American Psychologist , 1963, 18 (1), 37-46. (The views of a missile scientist as presented to an audience of psychologists.)

Waskow, A.I. The Worried Man's Guide to World Peace. New York : Anchor Books, 1963 (paperback).

Wedge, B. , and C. Muromcew. Psychological factors in Soviet disarmament negotiation , Journal of Conflict Resolution, 1965, 9 (1, March), 18-37.

Weisner, J.B. , and H.F. York. The test ban, Scientific American, 1964, 211, 27.

Wright, Q. , W. M. Evans , and M. Deutsch (eds.). Preventing World War III: Some Proposals. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1962.