Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables, Figures, and Appendices -- Preface -- Part I: Introduction -- 1 Belief Systems as Causal Mechanisms in World Politics: An Overview of Operational Code Analysis -- Part II: Methods: Content Analysis and Formal Models -- 2 Operational Code Analysis at a Distance: The Verbs in Context System of Content Analysis -- 3 A World of Beliefs: Modeling Interactions Among Agents with Different Operational Codes -- Part III: Applications: The Domain of Leader-Advisor Relations -- 4 The Eyes of Kesteven: How the Worldviews of Margaret Thatcher and Her Cabinet Influenced British Foreign Policy -- 5 George W. Bush and the Vulcans: Leader-Advisor Relations and America's Response to the 9/11 Attacks -- Part IV: Applications: The Domain of International Security -- 6 Reagan and Gorbachev: Altercasting at the End of the Cold War -- 7 Crisis Deferred: An Operational Code Analysis of Chinese Leaders Across the Strait -- 8 Links Among Beliefs and Personality Traits: The Distinctive Language of Terrorists -- Part V: Applications: The Domain of International Political Economy -- 9 Economic Sanctions and Operational Code Analysis: Beliefs and the Use of Economic Coercion -- 10 Economic Liberalism and the Operational Code Beliefs of U.S. Presidents: The Initiation of NAFTA Disputes, 1989-2002 -- 11 Bankers and Beliefs: The Political Psychology of the Asian Financial Crisis -- Part VI: Conclusion -- 12 Structural International Relations Theories and the Future of Operational Code Analysis -- Bibliography -- Notes on Editors and Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y -- Z.