Cognitive Management in an Enduring International Rivalry: The Case of India and Pakistan

Using integrative complexity scoring, the current study addresses how communications by leaders of India and Pakistan have revealed their information processing and decision-making strategies. The hostility between India and Pakistan started with the official creation of the two states and has laste...

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Published in:Political psychology 2009-12, Vol.30 (6), p.937-951
Main Authors: Suedfeld, Peter, Jhangiani, Rajiv
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Civil wars
Cognition & reasoning
Communication
Conflict
Conflicts
Confounding (Statistics)
Decision making
Government officials
Heads of state
Hostility
India
India-Pakistan conflict
Information Processing
Integrative complexity
Pakistan
Peacetime
Political leadership
Political psychology
Political science
Prime ministers
Psychology
Rivalry
Speeches
Strategic behaviour
Violence
War
War conflict
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Summary:Using integrative complexity scoring, the current study addresses how communications by leaders of India and Pakistan have revealed their information processing and decision-making strategies. The hostility between India and Pakistan started with the official creation of the two states and has lasted through more than a half-century. It has been marked by four full-scale wars and almost constant ethnopolitical, terrorist, and guerrilla violence. It is one of the most enduring and bloody binational rivalries of recent decades. Shared aspects of history and culture make the comparisons relatively free of confounding factors. In common with previous findings, complexity scores have shown reliable associations with impending war and with continued peace (or low-intensity conflict).
ISSN:0162-895X
1467-9221
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-9221.2009.00736.x