This is a lucid beautifullywritten informative and provocative book. Itpresents the modern science of choice and decision persuasively.ThomasSchelling Universit... » 

This is a lucid beautifullywritten informative and provocative book. Itpresents the modern science of choice and decision persuasively.ThomasSchelling University of Maryland War and Human Nature holds the potentialto open an entirely new area of insight into war. It will provide a new way ofthinking about the collapse of armies the choices and behaviors of tyrantsand the way in which differing elite selection mechanisms may wittingly orotherwise lead to individuals with differing cognitive profiles ending up inoffice. The use of the cognitive science literature is novel and providesinsight into an area of research social scientists typically ignore.Allan C.Stam Dartmouth College A thoughtprovoking timely synthesis of politicaldecisionmaking in light of recent progress in neurobiology psychology andbehavioral biology. Rosen explores an intriguing new formulation ofbiologicallymotivated political science.Michael L. Platt Duke University «