Dictators at war and peace
By: Jessica L.P. Weeks
Series: Cornell studies in security affairs; Cornell studies in security affairs
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ithaca; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780801479823; 9780801452963
Subjects: Authoritarianism; Politics and war; Military policy; Decision making; Dictators
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-239) and index.
Table of contents: title: Authoritarian regimes and the domestic politics of war and peace; title: Audiences, preferences, and decisions about war; title: Hypotheses, implications, and cases; title: Initiating international conflict; title: Measuring authoritarian regime type; title: Modeling the initiation of international conflict; title: Results; title: Winners, losers, and survival; title: Selecting wars; title: War outcomes in the past century; title: Outcomes of militarized interstate disputes, 1946-2000; title: The consequences of defeat; title: Personalist dictators: shooting from the hip; title: Saddam Hussein and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait; title: Josef Stalin: a powerful but loose cannon; title: Juntas: using the only language they understand; title: Argentina and the Falklands/Malvinas war; title: Japan's road to World War II; title: Machines: looking before they leap; title: The North Vietnamese wars against the US, South Vietnam, and Cambodia; title: The Soviet Union in the post-Stalin era; title: Conclusion: dictatorship, war, and peace.