Democracies at War.
Why do democracies win wars? This is a critical question in the study of international relations, as a traditional view--expressed most famously by Alexis de Tocqueville--has been that democracies are inferior in crafting foreign policy and fighting wars. In Democracies at War, the first major study...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; contents; tables and figures; acknowledgments; one: democracy's fourth virtue; two: democracy, war initiation, and victory; three: democracy and battlefield success; four: balancers or bystanders? the lack of fraternal democratic assistance during war; five: winning wars on factory floors?: the myth of the democratic arsenals of victory; six: democracy, consent, and the path to war; seven: the declining advantages of democracy: when consent erodes; eight: why democracies win wars; notes; bibliography; index.