The research by Assistant Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies Baris Kesgin into the characteristics of hawks and doves in foreign policy was published recently in the journal Cooperation and Conflict.
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Assistant Professor of Political Science and Policy Studies Baris Kesgin recently published research聽补产辞耻迟听听颈苍听the international relations journal聽Cooperation and Conflict.
Kesgin鈥檚 manuscript sheds light on the frequently used metaphors to describe policymakers鈥 foreign and security policy stances, and advances a systematic and objective framework to profiling the so-called hawks and doves.
To contextualize this discussion, Kesgin looks at the case of Israeli prime ministers from the early 1990s to the present day. Kesgin argues that Israel and its leaders provide meaningful observations for this because of the prevalence of these metaphors in its domestic and foreign policy. Based on a quantitative profiling approach to political leaders, Kesgin develops theoretical expectations and traces these in the profiles of Israel鈥檚 prime ministers.
According to Kesgin鈥檚 findings, the metaphors are meaningful in that Israeli leaders profile correspond to the hawk-dove typology commonly applied to these leaders. The manuscript offers distinctive personality traits to hawks and doves in foreign policy: Kesgin finds that hawks think in simple terms, are distrustful and confident. In addition, according to the findings, hawks are relationship oriented (against the expectation that they would be problem focused). Kesgin鈥檚 paper successfully builds up the first systematic attempt to unpacking the personality traits of these commonly used phrases in foreign policy debates.
The manuscript, 鈥,鈥 is published in聽. The journal is one of the top venues for peer-reviewed research in international relations.