Umfang:
1 online resource (279 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780833040633
Inhalt:
Describes American public opinion toward wars and other large military operations over the last decade.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Preface -- Figures -- Tables -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Chapter One - Introduction -- Background -- Approach -- A Note on the Importance of Question Wording -- Example One -- Example Two -- Robust Analyses, Robust Support -- Organization of This Report -- Chapter Two - Understanding Support for Military Operations -- A Simple Model of the Public's Ends-Means Calculus -- The Deductive Model -- Key Beliefs and Opinion Mediators -- Predictions of the Model -- A Simple Social Process Model -- Chapter Conclusions -- Chapter Three - Past as Prologue: Mogadishu to Kosovo -- Endgame in Somalia -- Background -- Overview of Support for the Operation -- Preferences Regarding Withdrawal and Escalation -- Sources and Fault Lines in Support for Escalation and Withdrawal -- Haiti -- Background -- Overview of Support for the Operation -- Sources and Fault Lines in Support -- Déjà Vu All Over Again: The 2004 U.S. Intervention in Haiti -- Bosnia -- Background -- Overview of Support for the Operation -- Sources and Fault Lines in Support -- A Note on Sensitivity of Support to Question Wording -- Kosovo -- Background -- Overview of Support for the Operation -- Sources and Fault Lines in Support -- Key Lessons From the Peace Operations of the 1990s -- Chapter Conclusions -- Chapter Four - 9/11 and Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan -- Support in the Aftermath of the Attacks -- Support for Military Action -- Presidential Handling -- Sources and Fault Lines in Support -- Statistical Modeling Results -- Partisan Leadership and Followership -- Beliefs About Stakes -- Prospects for Success -- Expected and Actual Costs -- Balancing Costs and Benefits -- Support for Military Action Elsewhere -- Chapter Conclusions -- Chapter Five - Operation Iraqi Freedom -- Background -- Attitudes Since the First Gulf War -- Attitudes in the Run-Up To War.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780833036728
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780833036728
Sprache:
Englisch
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=784095
