Only these two Americans held positions of great influence throughout the entirety of the Cold War, and they were the chief advocates for the opposing strategies for winning–and surviving–that harrowing conflict. Both men came to power during World War II, reached their professional peaks during the Cold War’s most frightening moments, and fought epic political [...]
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The Cold War’s Friendliest Quarrel
May 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Conflict Strategies
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Sheldon Solomon – Terror Management Theory (TMT) Becker
April 23rd, 2010 · 15 Comments · Conflict Strategies
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=fear-death-and-politics
Sheldon Solomon:
As graduate students at the University of Kansas in the late 1970s Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and I were interested in understanding the psychological underpinnings of prejudice and ethnic conflict as well as the nature and function of self-esteem. In 1980, I accidentally stumbled across the work of the late cultural anthropologist Ernest Becker, [...]
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Sun Tzu – The Art of War Book Ad
April 14th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Conflict Strategies
“Every battle is won before it is ever fought” – Sun Tzu in The Art of War. The Art of War is an antique military treatise written by Chinse commander Sun Tzu in the 6th century B.C. His strategies & tactics are still in use today. On the battlefield, the sporting arena, in business & [...]
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