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_bCAV
100 1 _aCaverley, Jonathan D.
_939248
245 1 0 _aDemocratic militarism :
_bvoting, wealth, and war /
_cJonathan D. Caverley.
260 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_cc.2014.
300 _axvi, 306 p. :
_bill. ;
_c24 cm.
490 0 _aCambridge studies in international relations ;
_v131
500 _aIndex : p. 301-306.
504 _aBibliography : p. 273-300.
505 8 _aMachine generated contents note: 1. Sources of democratic military aggression; 2. Cost distribution and 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. Contemporary Israel; 8. Conclusion: strategy wears a dollar sign.
520 _a"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"--
650 7 _aPolitics and war.
_2BUEsh
_915586
650 7 _aDemocracy.
_2BUEsh
_93166
650 7 _aWar
_xTechnological innovations.
_2BUEsh
_939249
650 7 _aWar
_xEconomic aspects.
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650 0 _aWar
_xPublic opinion.
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650 0 _aVietnam War, 1961-1975
_zUnited States.
_2BUEsh
650 0 _aLebanon War, 2006.
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651 0 _aGreat Britain
_xHistory, Military
_y19th century.
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653 _bBUSBOL
_cAugust2015
_cFebruary2016
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