ISBN:
9781139115919
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (254 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
303.6/6
Keywords:
International relations
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Politics and war Case studies
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Political leadership Case studies
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International relations Case studies
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Political leadership
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Politics and war
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International relations ; Case studies
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International relations
;
Political leadership ; Case studies
;
Political leadership
;
Politics and war ; Case studies
;
Politics and war
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Electronic books
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Militärischer Führer
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Staatsoberhaupt
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Internationaler Konflikt
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Geschichte 1800-1920
Abstract:
Highlights the role political leadership plays in the choice between war and peace.
Abstract:
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Online appendices -- 1 Leaders -- 1.1 The central question -- 1.2 The central argument -- 1.3 Leaders in the study of international politics -- 1.3.1 Is war costly for leaders? -- 1.4 Conclusions -- 2 Why and when do leaders fight? -- 2.1 How leaders are removed from office -- 2.1.1 Explaining the forcible removal from office -- 2.1.2 Fighting and gambling for survival -- 2.1.3 International conflict and regular removals -- 2.2 Competing leader-level explanations of international conflict -- 2.2.1 In- and out-group bias -- 2.2.2 Evaluation -- 2.2.3 Competence -- 2.2.4 Evaluation -- 2.3 Conclusions -- 3 International conflict and the fate of leaders -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The manner and consequences of losing office -- 3.2.1 International conflict and the fate of leaders -- 3.3 Competing risks: regular and forcible removals -- 3.3.1 Testing the hypotheses -- 3.4 Under what conditions? -- 3.4.1 Conflict and domestic political institutions -- 3.4.2 Conflict and domestic political unrest -- 3.4.3 Conflict and economic development -- 3.4.4 Conflict and economic growth -- 3.4.5 Summary -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 4 The fate of leaders and incentives to fight -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Measuring the risk of losing of office -- 4.3 A statistical test of our theory of conflict initiation -- 4.3.1 The risk of conflict initiation -- 4.3.2 Conflict outcomes -- 4.3.3 An overview of the findings from the statistical model -- Regime type -- State of the economy -- International political context -- 4.4 Conclusions -- 5 Case studies: Central America 1840-1918 -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Central America -- 5.2.1 Empirical strategy -- 5.2.2 Ideology and international conflict in Central America -- 5.3 Birth pangs of independence 1840-48 -- 5.3.1 The return of Morazán.
Description / Table of Contents:
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction; 2. When do leaders fight?; 3. International conflict and the fate of leaders; 4. The fate of leaders and incentives to fight; 5. Case studies: fighting for survival; 6. Conclusions.
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