Ole Holsti

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Olavi "Ole" Rudolf Holsti (born August 7, 1933 in Geneva ; † July 2, 2020 in Salt Lake City , Utah ) was an American political scientist and conflict researcher of Finnish origin.

Life

Holsti was born in Geneva in 1933. His younger brother Kalevi (* 1935) is also a political scientist. Her father was the Finnish Foreign Minister Rudolf Holsti (1881–1945). In 1962 he earned his Ph.D. at Stanford University , California . From 1954 he was a US citizen. He served in the US Army from 1956 to 1962 . Ole R. Holsti taught from 1967 to 1974 as a professor of political science at the University of British Columbia in Canada and from 1974 at Duke University . He was the author of numerous political-psychological studies.

"Inherent Bad Faith Model"

Ole Holsti became known for the model of inherent malice , which was established in his doctoral thesis (1962) , which describes the psychological processing of information by a conflict partner. In this model, a person views their opponent as invariably hostile and malicious, and signals contradicting this view are interpreted as propaganda-motivated deception or as signs of weakness. According to the Handbook of Social Psychology , the Inherent Bad Faith Model is the most widely studied model for examining the relationship between two conflict opponents. The Inherent Bad Faith Model was best known through John Foster Dulles ' relationship with the Soviet Union or Israel's early relationship with the PLO .

Works

Here is a very incomplete selection of his works:

  • Content analysis for the social sciences and humanities , 1969.
  • Crisis Escalation War , 1972.
  • American Public Opinion on the Iraq War , 2011.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ole Holsti, beloved professor emeritus, passed away. Duke University, Department of Political Science, July 10, 2020, accessed July 16, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Kalevi Holsti : A Pioneer in International Relations Theory, Foreign Policy, Analysis, History of International Order, and Security Studies , p. 3 ( limited preview in Google Book Search).
  3. ↑ RCS Trahair: From Aristotelian to Reaganomics: A Dictionary of Eponyms with Biographies , p. 286 ( limited preview in the Google book search).
  4. ↑ Susan T. Fiske et al .: Handbook of Social Psychology. Wiley Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-0-470-13747-5 .
personal data
SURNAME Holsti, Ole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Holsti, Olavi Rudolf (full name); Holsti, Ole R.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American political scientist and conflict researcher of Finnish origin
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Geneva
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 2020
Place of death Salt Lake City , Utah