Dictators at War and Peace.
Weeks, Jessica L. P.
Dictators at War and Peace. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (265 pages) - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series . - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series .
Dictators at War and Peace -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Authoritarian Regimes and the Domestic Politics of War and Peace -- Audiences, Preferences, and Decisions about War -- Hypotheses, Implications, and Cases -- 2. Initiating International Conflict -- Measuring Authoritarian Regime Type -- Modeling the Initiation of International Conflict -- Results -- 3. Winners, Losers, and Survival -- Selecting Wars -- War Outcomes in the Past Century -- Outcomes of Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1946-2000 -- The Consequences of Defeat -- 4. Personalist Dictators: Shooting from the Hip -- Saddam Hussein and the 1990 Invasion of Kuwait -- Joseph Stalin: A Powerful but Loose Cannon -- 5. Juntas: Using the Only Language They Understand -- Argentina and the Falklands/Malvinas War -- Japan's Road to World War II -- 6. Machines: Looking Before They Leap -- The North Vietnamese Wars against the United States, South Vietnam, and Cambodia -- The Soviet Union in the Post-Stalin Era -- Conclusion: Dictatorship, War, and Peace -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
The first book to focus systematically on the foreign policy of different types of authoritarian regimes, Dictators at War and Peace breaks new ground in our understanding of the international behavior of dictators.
9780801455247
Dictators.
Authoritarianism.
Military policy -- Decision making.
Politics and war.
Electronic books.
JC495
321.9092/2
Dictators at War and Peace. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (265 pages) - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series . - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series .
Dictators at War and Peace -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Authoritarian Regimes and the Domestic Politics of War and Peace -- Audiences, Preferences, and Decisions about War -- Hypotheses, Implications, and Cases -- 2. Initiating International Conflict -- Measuring Authoritarian Regime Type -- Modeling the Initiation of International Conflict -- Results -- 3. Winners, Losers, and Survival -- Selecting Wars -- War Outcomes in the Past Century -- Outcomes of Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1946-2000 -- The Consequences of Defeat -- 4. Personalist Dictators: Shooting from the Hip -- Saddam Hussein and the 1990 Invasion of Kuwait -- Joseph Stalin: A Powerful but Loose Cannon -- 5. Juntas: Using the Only Language They Understand -- Argentina and the Falklands/Malvinas War -- Japan's Road to World War II -- 6. Machines: Looking Before They Leap -- The North Vietnamese Wars against the United States, South Vietnam, and Cambodia -- The Soviet Union in the Post-Stalin Era -- Conclusion: Dictatorship, War, and Peace -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
The first book to focus systematically on the foreign policy of different types of authoritarian regimes, Dictators at War and Peace breaks new ground in our understanding of the international behavior of dictators.
9780801455247
Dictators.
Authoritarianism.
Military policy -- Decision making.
Politics and war.
Electronic books.
JC495
321.9092/2