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Dictators at war and peace /
Why do some autocratic leaders pursue aggressive or expansionist foreign policies, while others are much more cautious in their use of military force? The first book to focus systematically on the foreign policy of different types of authoritarian regimes, Dictators at War and Peace breaks new groun...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Ithaca ; London :
Cornell University Press,
2014.
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| Colección: | Cornell studies in security affairs.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Authoritarian regimes and the domestic politics of war and peace
- Audiences, preferences, and decisions about war
- Hypotheses, implications, and cases
- Initiating international conflict
- Measuring authoritarian regime type
- Modeling the initiation of international conflict
- Results
- Winners, losers, and survival
- Selecting wars
- War outcomes in the past century
- Outcomes of militarized interstate disputes, 1946-2000
- The consequences of defeat
- Personalist dictators: shooting from the hip
- Saddam Hussein and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait
- Josef Stalin: a powerful but loose cannon
- Juntas: using the only language they understand
- Argentina and the Falklands/Malvinas war
- Japan's road to World War II
- Machines: looking before they leap
- The North Vietnamese wars against the US, South Vietnam, and Cambodia
- The Soviet Union in the post-Stalin era
- Conclusion: dictatorship, war, and peace.