Democracies at war /
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...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Sprog: | engelsk |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press
©2002.
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| Online adgang: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s7tq |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Fysisk beskrivelse: | 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografi: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-267) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1400814553 9781400814558 9781400824458 1400824451 1283133318 9781283133319 9786613133311 6613133310 0691089485 0691089493 9780691089492 |