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Enemy images are supposed to be core concepts in political judgment on international relations. With their prejudicial character they are easily considered as amendable personality traits, whose existence is either due to personal flaws or to biased information from officials and press organs. “War starts in the minds of man,” says the preamble of UNESCO. This specimen of tacit conviction normally functions as untested preliminary for quite a few attempts at explaining thoughts about peace and security. Even arms races are conceived as a direct offspring of enemy images, without any proof. The question is whether one can seriously use a concept in science in such an indiscriminate manner. Posing this question is answering it. We will have to develop a theory about the relationship of a subject with his international political environment, in order to explain opinion data such as enemy image.
Though this may be madness, yet there is method in’t.
Hamlet (I1.ii.211)
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Rebel, H.J.C. (1991). Fearing the Army and the Enemy. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) The Psychology of War and Peace. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0747-9_8
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