Leaders and international conflict /
Highlights the role political leadership plays in the choice between war and peace.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Autores principales: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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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.