Acting alone : a scientific study of American hegemony and unilateral use-of-force decision making /
Acting Alone: A Scientific Study of American Hegemony and Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision Making is a straight-forward analysis of unilateral U.S. military actions, which are dependent upon the power disparity between the U.S. and the rest of the world. In solving the puzzle as to why individual pr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Lanham, Md. :
Lexington Books,
©2010.
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Colección: | Innovations in the study of world politics.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Acting Alone: A Scientific Study of American Hegemony and Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision Making is a straight-forward analysis of unilateral U.S. military actions, which are dependent upon the power disparity between the U.S. and the rest of the world. In solving the puzzle as to why individual presidents have made the "wrong" decision to act alone, the author lays out a president's behavior, during a crisis, as a two-step decision process. Acting Alone reviews the well-studied first decision, deciding to use force, based on international conflict literature and organized along traditional |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-245) and index. |
ISBN: | 9780739142530 0739142534 1282581937 9781282581937 9786612581939 661258193X |