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Presidential saber rattling : causes and consequences /
The founders of the American republic believed presidents should be wise and virtuous statesmen consistently advocating community interests when conducting American foreign policy. Yet the most common theoretical model used today for explaining the behavior of politicians is grounded in self-interes...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | The founders of the American republic believed presidents should be wise and virtuous statesmen consistently advocating community interests when conducting American foreign policy. Yet the most common theoretical model used today for explaining the behavior of politicians is grounded in self-interest, rather than community interest. This book investigates whether past presidents acted as noble statesmen or were driven by such self-interested motivations as re-election, passion, partisanship, media frenzy and increasing domestic support. The book also examines the consequences for the nation of presidential behavior driven by self-interest. Between 1945 and 2008, presidents issued 4,269 threats to nineteen different countries. Professor B. Dan Wood evaluates the causes and consequences of these threats, revealing the nature of presidential foreign policy representation and its consistency with the founding fathers' intentions. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139424103 1139424106 9781139108720 1139108727 1139411640 9781139411646 1107231485 9781107231481 1283521695 9781283521697 1139423037 9781139423038 9786613834140 6613834149 1139417975 9781139417976 1139420011 9781139420013 1139422065 9781139422062 |