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Leaders and international conflict /

Highlights the role political leadership plays in the choice between war and peace.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores principales: Chiozza, Giacomo (Autor), Goemans, H. E. (Hein Erich), 1957- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Online contents
  • Leaders: 1.1 The central question
  • 1.2 The central argument
  • 1.3 Leaders in the study of international politics
  • 1.3.1 Is war costly for leaders?
  • 1.4 Conclusions
  • 2. Why and when do leaders fight?:
  • 2.1 How leaders are removed from office
  • 2.1.1 Explaining the forcible removal from office
  • 2.1.2 Fighting and gambling for survival
  • 2.1.3 International conflict and regular removals
  • 2.2 Competing leader-level explanations of international conflict
  • 2.2.1 In- and out-group bias
  • 2.2.2 Evaluation
  • 2.2.3 Competence
  • 2.2.4 Evaluation
  • 2.3 Conclusions
  • 3. International conflict and the fate of leaders:
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 The manner and consequences of losing office
  • 3.2.1 International conflict and the fate of leaders
  • 3.3 Competing risks: regular and forcible removals
  • 3.3.1 Testing the hypotheses
  • 3.4 Under what conditions?
  • 3.4.1 Conflict and domestic political institutions
  • 3.4.2 Conflict and domestic political unrest
  • 3.4.3 Conflict and economic development
  • 3.4.4 Conflict and economic growth
  • 3.4.5 Summary
  • 3.5 Conclusions
  • 4. The fate of leaders and incentives to fight:
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Measuring the risk of our theory of conflict initiation
  • 4.3.1 The risk of conflict initiation
  • 4.3.2 Conflict outcomes
  • 4.3.3 An overview of the findings from the statistical model: Regime type
  • State of the economy
  • International political context
  • 4.4 Conclusions
  • 5. Case studies: Central America 1840-1918:
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Central America
  • 5.2.1 Empirical strategy
  • 5.2.2 Ideology and international conflict in Central America
  • 5.3 Birth pangs of independence 1840-48
  • 5.3.1 The return of Morazán
  • 5.3.2 Malespín and the Liberal exiles in Nicaragua
  • 5.3.3 The fall of Carrera
  • 5.4 Conservatism ascendant 1849-71
  • 5.4.1 The return of Carrera
  • 5.4.2 Cabañas comes to power
  • 5.4.3 The National War
  • 5.4.4 Gerardo Barrios
  • 5.5 The return of Liberalism 1872-1918
  • 5.5.1 The rise and demise of Justo Rufino Barrios
  • 5.5.2 The era of Zelaya and Estrada Cabrera
  • 5.6 A problem (largely) solved: the Washington Treaty
  • 5.7 Conclusions
  • 6. Conclusions:
  • 6.1 Summary
  • 6.2 Implications
  • 6.3 Conclusions
  • Appendix A: data and measurement
  • A.1 Archigos: a data set of leaders
  • A.2 Dependent variables
  • A.3 Explanatory variables.