... of a hypothetical military intervention; a dispositional questionnaire measuring time preferences, risk preferences, and honor orientations; and a concluding questionnaire measuring general demographic characteristics. The results suggest that the costs of fighting have relatively little effect on the amount...

... that variation in time and risk preferences, honor orientation, and self-control shape how actors respond to the situations they face. This chapter discusses the definition of resolve, the place of resolve in international relations, the prevalence of references to resolve in the international security...

... and risk preferences, honor orientations, and trait self-control. It then introduces an interactionist theory of resolve, presenting a series of hypotheses to explain why certain types of actors define the situations they face differently, and are therefore more or less sensitive to certain types of costs...

... preferences, honor orientation, and self-control help explain the ways by which leaders and members of the public define the situations they face and weigh the trade-offs between the costs of fighting and the costs of backing down. Offering a novel in-depth look at how willpower functions in international...