TY - BOOK AU - SIMON Eszter TI - Cognitivism, prospect theory, and foreign policy change: a comparative analysis of the politics of counterinsurgency in Malaya and Afghanistan PY - 2015/// KW - MALAYA KW - COUNTERINSURGENCY KW - FOREIGN POLICY KW - AFGHANISTAN KW - UNITED STATES KW - UNITED KINGDOM N2 - This article uses a comparative approach contrasting America's Afghanistan policy from the outbreak of the insurgency in2003-2014 with British policy against communist insurgents in Malaya between 1948-1954. The anlysis of government policy making in Malaya holds some important political lessons for American leaders today despite differences between insurgencies in Afghnistan and British Malaya UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09592318.2015.1095842 ER -