Bradley F. Podliska

Acting Alone

A Scientific Study of American Hegemony and Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision Making

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Produktbeschreibung

Acting Alone offers an unprecedented scientifically-based answer to the question of why presidents, regardless of political party, make decisions to use unilateral military force. By using three methods to test U.S. crisis behavior since 1937, the author of Acting Alone makes the case that presidents are realists and make a unilateral decision based on a wide military gap with an opponent, an opponent located in the Western hemisphere, and a national security threat.

Produktdetails

• Innovations in the Study of World Politics
• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 598g
• ISBN-13: 9780739142516
• ISBN-10: 0739142518
• Artikelnr.: 28114332

Autorenporträt

Bradley F. Podliska is an instructor with the Department of Defense.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 1 Introduction Chapter 2 2 Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision
Making Chapter 3 3 Statistical Tests: U.S. Unilateral Uses of Force Since
1937 Chapter 4 4 Does the Type of Crisis Matter? An Experimental Test
Chapter 5 5 Opening Up the "Black Box" of a President's Unilateral
Decision: Case Studies of the 1991 Gulf War, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion, and
1989 Panama Invasion Chapter 6 6 Conclusion