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Dictators at War and Peace.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2014Copyright date: ©2014Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (265 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801455247
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dictators at War and PeaceDDC classification:
  • 321.9092/2
LOC classification:
  • JC495
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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