Janice Stein

Strategic Studies tends to be preoccupied with power and the containment of aggression by convincing counter-threats. In contrast, Janice Stein is a leading member of a new international group of scholars that has broken with the dominant behavioral and realist traditions of International Relations as a discipline to develop an approach to decision making on security issues which instead gives emphasis to nonrational factors, to historical, cultural religious and socio-economic determinants and which seeks to promote peace through conciliation, through the reassurance of adversaries, and through compromise.