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Ideas and the Use of Force in American Foreign Policy : Presidential Decision-Making in a Post-Cold War World
Examining the post-Cold War period, this book sets out to explain why and when US presidents choose to use force. It develops new explanations for variation in the use of force in US foreign policy by theorizing and demonstrating the effects of the displacement and repression of ideas within and acr...
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2021.
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| 505 | 0 | |a Front Cover -- Ideas and the Use of Force in American Foreign Policy: Presidential Decision- Making in a Post- Cold War World -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Part I Disaggregating Ideas in American Foreign Policy -- 1 Ideas and the Use of Force in American Foreign Policy -- Introduction -- Why ideas? -- The debate so far ... -- Rationalist limitations -- Constructivism -- Ontological security -- Discursive institutionalism -- Theoretical framework: uncertainty, weaponization and interpretation | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Ideas reduce uncertainty: principled and cognitive interpretations -- Ideas as weapons: mechanisms -- Normative displacement -- Cognitive repression -- Interpretive leadership -- Method -- Plan of the book -- Part II US Foreign Policy and Mass Atrocities in the Balkans -- 2 'We Don't Have a Dog in the Fight': Ethnic Cleansing in Bosnia -- Introduction -- Cognitive repression in Bosnia: 'We do deserts, not mountains or jungles' -- Bosnia -- The Bush administration's response -- Renewed cognitive repression: early optimism to repression in the Clinton administration -- Conclusion | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 3 'What Should I Tell My Daughter?': The Massacre at Srebrenica -- Introduction -- Normative displacement: principled reinterpretations of Srebrenica -- The fall of Srebrenica -- Operation Deliberate Force -- Conclusion -- Part III US Foreign Policy and Terrorism -- 4 'Wag the Dog': Terrorism in the 1990s -- Introduction -- Cognitive repression: terrorism as a second-tier threat -- Bombing of the World Trade Centre (1993) -- 1998 Embassy bombings and the Iraqi threat -- USS Cole and the 2000 presidential election -- Early Bush repression: promises of campaign restraint -- Conclusion | |
| 505 | 0 | |a 5 'America Is Under Attack': From the War on Terror to Iraq -- Introduction -- Normative displacement: 11 September 2001 -- Constructing the War on Terror -- Constructing the war in Iraq -- Conclusion -- Part IV Obama and Mass Atrocities in the Middle East -- 6 'This Is Like Rwanda': How the Road to Libya Ran Through Rwanda -- Introduction -- Early cognitive repression: a call for restraint -- Normative displacement: principled intervention in Libya -- Obama's principled response -- Conclusion -- 7 Syria: 'There Was No Benghazi To Be Saved' -- Introduction | |
| 505 | 0 | |a Seeds of intervention and the promise of 'red lines' -- Obama's response and the promise of intervention -- Cognitive repression, chemical weapons and shifting 'red lines' -- Conclusion -- Part V 'America First' and the Use of Force -- 8 From 'America First' to Saving 'Beautiful Babies' in Syria -- Introduction -- Early cognitive repression: a turn to 'America First' -- Obama, Syria and ISIS -- Cognitive repression and Trump's 'America First' -- Normative displacement: saving the 'beautiful babies' in Syria -- Back to repression -- Conclusion -- Part VI Conclusions | |
| 520 | |a Examining the post-Cold War period, this book sets out to explain why and when US presidents choose to use force. It develops new explanations for variation in the use of force in US foreign policy by theorizing and demonstrating the effects of the displacement and repression of ideas within and across different US Presidential administrations. | ||
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