Jonathan D. Caverley: Democratic Militarism

Cover: 9781107667372 | Democratic Militarism | Jonathan D. Caverley | Taschenbuch | Englisch

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Why are democracies pursuing more military conflicts, but achieving worse results? Democratic Militarism shows that a combination of economic inequality and military technical change enables an average voter to pay very little of the costs of large militaries and armed conflict, in terms of both death and taxes. Jonathan Caverley provides an original statistical analysis of public opinion and international aggression, combined with historical evidence from the late Victorian British Empire, the US Vietnam War effort, and Israel's Second Lebanon War. This book undermines conventional wisdom regarding democracy's exceptional foreign policy characteristics, and challenges elite-centered explanations for poor foreign policy. This accessible and wide ranging book offers a new account of democratic warfare, and will help readers to understand the implications of the revolution in military affairs.

Über den Autor

Jonathan D. Caverley is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, where he co-chairs the Working Group on Security Studies at the Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies. For 2013-14, he is a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He previously served as a submarine officer in the US Navy.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: sources of democratic military aggression; 2. Cost distribution and aggressive grand strategy; 3. Analyses of public opinion; 4. Analyses of arming and war; 5. British electoral reform and imperial overstretch; 6. Vietnam and the American way of small war; 7. Becoming a normal democracy: Israel; 8. Conclusion: strategy wears a dollar sign.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Importe , Politikwissenschaften
Rubrik:	Wissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781107667372
ISBN-10:	1107667372
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Caverley, Jonathan D.
Hersteller:	Cambridge University Press
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	229 x 152 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Jonathan D. Caverley
Erscheinungsdatum:	05.01.2014
Gewicht:	0,48 kg