TY  - BOOK
AU  - Weeks,Jessica L.P.
TI  - Dictators at War and Peace
T2  - Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Series
SN  - 9780801455247
AV  - JC495 
U1  - 321.9092/2 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Dictators
KW  - Authoritarianism
KW  - Military policy -- Decision making
KW  - Politics and war
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -