Democratic Militarism

Voting, Wealth, and War

AvJonathan D. Caverley

Inbunden, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-05-01
Mått:156 x 235 x 20 mm
Vikt:650 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Cambridge Studies in International Relations
Antal sidor:326
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781107063983
Utmärkelser:Short-listed for William H. Riker Book Award, Political Economy Section, American Political Science Association 2015

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Internationella relationer inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

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.

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'Jonathan Caverley's Democratic Militarism links economics, domestic politics, and international security in a fresh and thought-provoking way. This book deserves to be pondered by both scholars and policy-makers alike.' Thomas G. Mahnken, Jerome Levy Chair of Economic Geography and National Security, US Naval War College

Innehållsförteckning

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.