LEADER 04193nam 2200745 450 001 9910790264203321 005 20221205151123.0 010 $a0-8014-6450-1 010 $a1-5017-2173-9 010 $a1-322-50500-4 010 $a0-8014-6403-X 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801464034 035 $a(CKB)2670000000186895 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000652579 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11362184 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000652579 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10641633 035 $a(PQKB)10843164 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001499953 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138298 035 $a(OCoLC)868219945 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28799 035 $a(DE-B1597)478583 035 $a(OCoLC)785782375 035 $a(OCoLC)979577332 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801464034 035 $a(OCoLC)1227051763 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse71757 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138298 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10533660 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL681782 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6990467 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6990467 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000186895 100 $a20221205d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aAsian states, Asian bankers $ecentral banking in Southeast Asia /$fNatasha Hamilton-Hart 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University Press,$d[2002] 210 4$dİ2002 215 $a1 online resource 225 1 $aCornell Studies in Political Economy 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8014-5054-3 311 $a0-8014-3987-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Beliefs about American Hegemony in Southeast Asia --$t2. Behind Beliefs: Hard Interests, Soft Illusions --$t3. The Politics and Economics of Interests --$t4. History Lessons --$t5. Professional Expertise --$t6. Regime Interests, Beliefs, and Knowledge --$tAppendix: Interviews --$tReferences --$tIndex. 330 $aIn Hard Interests, Soft Illusions, Natasha Hamilton-Hart explores the belief held by foreign policy elites in much of Southeast Asia-Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Thailand, Singapore, and Vietnam-that the United States is a relatively benign power. She argues that this belief is an important factor underpinning U.S. preeminence in the region, because beliefs inform specific foreign policy decisions and form the basis for broad orientations of alignment, opposition, or nonalignment. Such foundational beliefs, however, do not simply reflect objective facts and reasoning processes. Hamilton-Hart argues that they are driven by both interests-in this case the political and economic interests of ruling groups in Southeast Asia-and illusions. Hamilton-Hart shows how the information landscape and standards of professional expertise within the foreign policy communities of Southeast Asia shape beliefs about the United States. These opinions frequently rest on deeply biased understandings of national history that dominate perceptions of the past and underlie strategic assessments of the present and future. Members of the foreign policy community rarely engage in probabilistic reasoning or effortful knowledge-testing strategies. This does not mean, she emphasizes, that the beliefs are insincere or merely instrumental rationalizations. Rather, cognitive and affective biases in the ways humans access and use information mean that interests influence beliefs; how they do so depends on available information, the social organization and practices of a professional sphere, and prevailing standards for generating knowledge. 410 0$aCornell Studies in Political Economy 606 $aFinance$zSoutheast Asia 606 $aBanks and banking, Central 615 0$aFinance 615 0$aBanks and banking, Central. 676 $a327.59073 700 $aHamilton-Hart$b Natasha$f1969-$01562655 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790264203321 996 $aAsian states, Asian bankers$93830457 997 $aUNINA