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Online-Ressource (298 p)
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9780691089492
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Why do democracies win wars? This is a critical question in the study of international relations, as a traditional view--expressed most famously by Alexis de Tocqueville--has been that democracies are inferior in crafting foreign policy and fighting wars. In Democracies at War, the first major study of its kind, Dan Reiter and Allan Stam come to a very different conclusion. Democracies tend to win the wars they fight--specifically, about eighty percent of the time. Complementing their wide-ranging case-study analysis, the authors apply innovative statistical tests and new hypot
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COVER; CONTENTS; TABLES AND FIGURES; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; ONE: DEMOCRACY'S FOURTH VIRTUE; TWO: DEMOCRACY, WAR INITIATION, AND VICTORY; THREE: DEMOCRACY AND BATTLEFIELD SUCCESS; FOUR: BALANCERS OR BYSTANDERS? THE LACK OF FRATERNAL DEMOCRATIC ASSISTANCE DURING WAR; FIVE: WINNING WARS ON FACTORY FLOORS?: THE MYTH OF THE DEMOCRATIC ARSENALS OF VICTORY; SIX: DEMOCRACY, CONSENT, AND THE PATH TO WAR; SEVEN: THE DECLINING ADVANTAGES OF DEMOCRACY: WHEN CONSENT ERODES; EIGHT: WHY DEMOCRACIES WIN WARS; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400824458
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691089492
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Democracies at War
Language:
English
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