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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Tác giả chính: Reiter, Dan, 1967-
Tác giả khác: Stam, Allan C.
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press ©2002.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s7tq
Mục lục:
  • Frontmatter
  • 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?
  • FIVE. Winning Wars on Factory Floors?
  • SIX. Democracy, Consent, and the Path to War
  • SEVEN. The Declining Advantages of Democracy
  • EIGHT. Why Democracies Win Wars
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX