Chapter The Appeasement Puzzle and Competition Neglect
Recent 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 appeasem...
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| description | Recent 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. |
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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-955482025-08-13T13:42:14Z Chapter The Appeasement Puzzle and Competition Neglect Pischedda, Costantino preventive war competition neglect appeasement balance of power biases thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPA Political science and theory Recent 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. 2022-12-23T04:02:53Z 2022-12-23T04:02:53Z 2022-12-22T16:05:25Z 2022 chapter ONIX_20221222_9788855185950_19 2704-5919 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/60357 9788855185950 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/95548 eng Studi e saggi open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International Attribution 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/60357/1/10_36253_978-88-5518-595-0_11.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/60357/1/10_36253_978-88-5518-595-0_11.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/60357/1/10_36253_978-88-5518-595-0_11.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/978-88-5518-595-0.11 10.36253/978-88-5518-595-0.11 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9788855185950 18 Florence open access |
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