APPLY INDIVIDUAL LEVEL APPROACHES – TWO PAGES
In class and in the text we have looked at how the characteristics of specific leaders and individual psychology may result in war erupting. Look at two explanations which may be related to the conflict you are examining, and state why or why not these approaches are useful for understanding why your war occurred.
Possible explanations:
• Rational choice
• Psychological: Misperception, threat perception, prospect theory, beliefs
