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Day 3: Monsters Under the Bed: Decision-Making and Threat Perception

Day 3: Monsters Under the Bed: Decision-Making and Threat Perception. ******* Paper topics due via email by midnight tonight!. D-M: What are we having for dinner? When are we going to war?. How do you make decisions? Where to go to dinner? Prisoner’s Dilemma game 6 teams

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Day 3: Monsters Under the Bed: Decision-Making and Threat Perception

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  1. Day 3: Monsters Under the Bed: Decision-Making and Threat Perception ******* Paper topics due via email by midnight tonight!

  2. D-M: What are we having for dinner? When are we going to war? • How do you make decisions? • Where to go to dinner? • Prisoner’s Dilemma game • 6teams • Whoever gets the most points wins

  3. Decision-Making • Rational Choice • Pros-cons • Prospect theory • Risk acceptant for losses, risk averse for gains • Cognitive theories • “Cave-men mentality” • Trust, fear, in-group, out-group • Why did our brains develop this way?

  4. Threat Perception

  5. Threat Perception and Construction Long, complicated history between the US and China. Paper Tiger or Fire-Breathing Dragon?

  6. Propaganda & Threat Construction • What images does this poster portray? • Who is the intended audience? • How should this poster make the audience feel? • How does this poster present the enemy?

  7. Sir Stafford Cripps • Sent to India in 1942 to forge a deal between India and the UK to “keep it together” during WWII and allow independence afterwards • Didn’t quite work out as planned • April 1942 • In the Washington Post

  8. 1878 political cartoon depicting Russia and England’s interests in Afghanistan • “If at the moment it has been decided to invade the Amer’s territory, we are acting in persuance of a policy which in its intention has been uniformly friendly to Afghanistan”- Times

  9. Glory to the Soviet people- the pioneer of space! Socialism is our launching pad

  10. Colonialists, international traitors, think carefully before you take Vietnam Enemies will certainly be defeated! (France, USA, China)

  11. “Hate will last” and “Drive out the American imperialists. Let’s reunify our fatherland.” (above) “It is exciting to play soldiers beating and seizing the Americans.”

  12. Modern Propaganda • Putin Forever slideshow • http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/05/04/putin_forever • Nashi (2007) http://video.on.nytimes.com/video/2007/08/07/world/1194817101307/the-putin-generation.html • What is the goal of propaganda? • Can you think of other forms of modern propaganda?

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