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Democratic participation in armed conflict : military involvement in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq / Patrick A. Mello.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mello, Patrick A., author.
- Series:
- Palgrave studies in international relations
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Intervention (International law).
- Kosovo War, 1998-1999--Participation, Foreign.
- Kosovo War, 1998-1999.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021--Participation, Foreign.
- Afghan War, 2001-2021.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011--Participation, Foreign.
- Iraq War, 2003-2011.
- International relations.
- Kosovo (Republic)--Foreign relations.
- Kosovo (Republic).
- Afghanistan--Foreign relations.
- Afghanistan.
- Iraq--Foreign relations.
- Iraq.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 259 pages : graphs (black and white) ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Summary:
- Under which conditions do democracies participate in military operations and when do they abstain? Studies on democratic peace have largely neg.ected. the flipside of democratic participations in armed conflict. In this book, Mello provides a unique theoretical framework for a systematic comparative analysis of the conditions-for democratic war involvement across three armed conflicts and thirty democracies. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction 1
- Research design 4
- Book outline 9
- 2 Democracy and War Involvement 13
- Institutional constraints 14
- Political preferences 20
- External constraints and inducements 27
- 3 Explaining Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict 31
- Parliamentary veto rights 32
- Constitutional restrictions 34
- Partisanship 37
- Public support 40
- Military power 41
- 4 Fuzzy-Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis 46
- Methodological approaches in democratic peace research 46
- Fuzzy-set analysis as an alternative to prevalent methods 49
- Strengths and limitations of the chosen approach 60
- 5 Kosovo: Forced Allies or Willing Contributors? 63
- Prevalent accounts of the Kosovo War 66
- Explaining military participation in Kosovo 71
- Fuzzy-set analysis 87
- Analytical findings 95
- Conclusion 98
- 6 Afghanistan: Unconditional Support but Selective Engagement? 100
- Prevalent accounts of the Afghanistan War 104
- Explaining military participation in Afghanistan 108
- Fuzzy-set analysis 125
- Conclusion 135
- 7 Iraq: Parliamentary Peace or Partisan Politics? 138
- Prevalent accounts of the Iraq War 148
- Explaining military participation In Iraq 155
- Fuzzy-set analysis 170
- Analytical findings 176
- Conclusion 179
- 8 Democracies and the Wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq 182
- Cross-case patterns of war involvement 183
- Theoretical contribution and Implications for the democratic peace 188
- Methodological contribution 190
- Exploring additional cases: Libya and Syria 191.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- ebook version
- ISBN:
- 9781137386502
- 1137386509
- OCLC:
- 880194852
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