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Dictators at war and peace / Jessica L. P. Weeks.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weeks, Jessica L. P., author.
- Series:
- Cornell studies in security affairs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dictators.
- Authoritarianism.
- Military policy--Decision making.
- Military policy.
- Politics and war.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 247 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2014.
- Contents:
- Authoritarian regimes and the domestic politics of war and peace
- Audiences, preferences, and decisions about war
- Hypotheses, implications, and cases
- Initiating international conflict
- Measuring authoritarian regime type
- Modeling the initiation of international conflict
- Results
- Winners, losers, and survival
- Selecting wars
- War outcomes in the past century
- Outcomes of militarized interstate disputes, 1946-2000
- The consequences of defeat
- Personalist dictators: shooting from the hip
- Saddam Hussein and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait
- Josef Stalin: a powerful but loose cannon
- Juntas: using the only language they understand
- Argentina and the Falklands/Malvinas war
- Japan's road to World War II
- Machines: looking before they leap
- The North Vietnamese wars against the US, South Vietnam, and Cambodia
- The Soviet Union in the post-Stalin era
- Conclusion: dictatorship, war, and peace.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780801452963
- 0801452961
- 9780801479823
- 0801479827
- OCLC:
- 871508618
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