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100	1		_aWeeks, Jessica L. P.
245	1	0	_aDictators at War and Peace.
250			_a1st ed.
264		1	_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c2014.
264		4	_c©2014.
300			_a1 online resource (265 pages)
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCornell Studies in Security Affairs Series
505	0		_aDictators 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.
520			_aThe 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.
588			_aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590			_aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650		0	_aDictators.
650		0	_aAuthoritarianism.
650		0	_aMilitary policy -- Decision making.
650		0	_aPolitics and war.
655		4	_aElectronic books.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _aWeeks, Jessica L. P. _tDictators at War and Peace _dIthaca : Cornell University Press,c2014 _z9780801479823
797	2		_aProQuest (Firm)
830		0	_aCornell Studies in Security Affairs Series
856	4	0	_uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3138651 _zClick to View
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