TY  - GEN
T1  - War and punishment : the causes of war termination and the First World War
T2  - Princeton studies in international history and politics.
A1  - Goemans, H. E. (Hein Erich), 1957-
LA  - English
PP  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
YR  - 2000
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocm52256521
AB  - H.E. Goemans explores how various government leaders assess the cost of war in terms of domestic politics and their own postwar fates. Goemans first develops the argument that two sides will wage war until both gain sufficient knowledge of the other's strengths and weaknesses so as to agree on the probable outcome of continued war. Yet the incentives that motivate leaders to then terminate war, Goemans maintains, can vary greatly depending on the type of government they represent. The author looks at democracies, dictatorships, and mixed regimes and compares the willingness among leaders to back out of wars or risk the costs of continued warfare. Democracies, according to Goemans, will prefer to withdraw quickly from a war they are not winning in order to appease the populace. Autocracies will do likewise so as not to be overthrown by their internal enemies. Mixed regimes, which are made up of several competing groups and which exclude a substantial proportion of the people from access to power, will likely see little risk in continuing a losing war in the hope of turning the tide. Goemans explores the conditions and the reasoning behind this "gamble for resurrection" as well as other strategies, using rational choice theory, statistical analysis, and detailed case studies of Germany, Britain, France, and Russia during World War I. In so doing, he offers a new perspective of the Great War that integrates domestic politics, international politics, and battlefield developments.
OP  - 355
CN  - D613 .G62 2000eb
SN  - 1400814294
SN  - 9781400814299
SN  - 9781400823956
SN  - 1400823951
SN  - 0691049432
SN  - 9780691049434
SN  - 0691049440
SN  - 9780691049441
KW  - Peace.
KW  - World War, 1914-1918 : Armistices.
KW  - Peace treaties.
KW  - Capitulations, Military.
KW  - Paix.
KW  - Guerre mondiale, 1914-1918 : Armistices.
KW  - Traités de paix.
KW  - Capitulation militaire.
KW  - HISTORY : Military : World War I.
KW  - Armistices
KW  - Capitulations, Military
KW  - Peace
KW  - Peace treaties
KW  - Kriegsende
KW  - Kriegsziel
KW  - Politische Führung
KW  - Weltkrieg : 1914-1918
KW  - Frankreich
KW  - Großbritannien
KW  - Russland
KW  - Deutschland
KW  - Oorlogen.
KW  - Wapenstilstanden.
KW  - Eerste Wereldoorlog.
KW  - Vredesverdragen.
KW  - Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) : Armistices.
KW  - Guerre : Fin.
KW  - Guerre mondiale (1914-1918) : Paix.
KW  - Deutschland.
KW  - 1914-1918
KW  - Geschichte.
ER  -