Dealing With Wars And Dictatorships

Author : Liora Israël,Guillaume Mouralis
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-02
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789067049306

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Dealing with Wars and Dictatorships by Liora Israël,Guillaume Mouralis Pdf

Democratic ‘transitions’ in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and South Africa, often studied under the conceptual rubric of ‘transitional justice’, have involved the formation of public policies toward the past that are multifaceted and often ambitious. Recent scholarship rarely questions the concepts and categories transposed from one country to another. This is true both in the language of political life and in the social sciences examining past-oriented public policy, especially policy toward ‘ethnic cleansing’ and the line between the language of political practice, legal analysis, and scholarly discourse has been quite porous. This book examines how these phenomena have been described and understood by focusing recent processes, such as the advent of international criminal justice, in relation to previous postwar and recent purges. By crossing disciplinary approaches and periods, the authors pay attention to three main aspects: the legal or political concepts used (and/or the ones mobilized in the academic work); the circulation of categories, know-how, and arguments; the different levels that can shed light on transitions.

Author : Jessica L. P. Weeks
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2014-09-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801455230

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Dictators at War and Peace by Jessica L. P. Weeks Pdf

Why do some autocratic leaders pursue aggressive or expansionist foreign policies, while others are much more cautious in their use of military force? The first book to focus systematically on the foreign policy of different types of authoritarian regimes, Dictators at War and Peace breaks new ground in our understanding of the international behavior of dictators. Jessica L. P. Weeks explains why certain kinds of regimes are less likely to resort to war than others, why some are more likely to win the wars they start, and why some authoritarian leaders face domestic punishment for foreign policy failures whereas others can weather all but the most serious military defeat. Using novel cross-national data, Weeks looks at various nondemocratic regimes, including those of Saddam Hussein and Joseph Stalin; the Argentine junta at the time of the Falklands War, the military government in Japan before and during World War II, and the North Vietnamese communist regime. She finds that the differences in the conflict behavior of distinct kinds of autocracies are as great as those between democracies and dictatorships. Indeed, some types of autocracies are no more belligerent or reckless than democracies, casting doubt on the common view that democracies are more selective about war than autocracies.

Author : Stanislav Andreski
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135191733

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Wars, Revolutions and Dictatorships by Stanislav Andreski Pdf

First Published in 1992. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. We can define war as organised fighting between groups of individuals belonging to the same species but occupying distinct territories, thus distinguishing war from fights between isolated individuals as well as from struggles between groups living intermingled within the same territory, which can be classified as rebellions, revolutions, riots and so on.The articles included in this volume were written in the 1970s and 1980s and published in very diverse journals and proceedings of conferences, in one case only in German.

Author : Barbara Geddes,Joseph George Wright,Joseph Wright,Erica Frantz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-08-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107115828

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How Dictatorships Work by Barbara Geddes,Joseph George Wright,Joseph Wright,Erica Frantz Pdf

Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.

Author : Ernest R. May
Publisher : Bcsia Studies in International
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015067652886

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Dealing with Dictators by Ernest R. May Pdf

The United States continues to proclaim its support for democracy and its opposition to tyranny, but American presidents often have supported dictators who have allied themselves with the United States. This book illustrates the chronic dilemmas inherent in US dealings with dictators under conditions of uncertainty and moral ambiguity. Dealing with Dictators offers in-depth analysis of six cases: the United States and China, 1945-1948; UN intervention in the Congo, 1960-1965; the overthrow of the Shah of Iran; US relations with the Somoza regime in Nicaragua; the fall of Marcos in the Philippines; and US policy toward Iraq, 1988-1990. The authors' fascinating and revealing accounts shed new light on critical episodes in US foreign policy and provide a basis for understanding the dilemmas that US decision makers confronted. The chapters do not focus on whether US leaders made the "right" or "wrong" decisions, but instead seek to deepen our understanding of how uncertainty permeated the process and whether decision makers and their aides asked the right questions. This approach makes the book invaluable to scholars and students of government and history, and to readers interested in the general subject of how intelligence analysis interacts with policymaking.

Author : Helmut Walser Smith
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 882 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191617454

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The Oxford Handbook of Modern German History by Helmut Walser Smith Pdf

This is the first comprehensive, multi-author survey of German history that features cutting-edge syntheses of major topics by an international team of leading scholars. Emphasizing demographic, economic, and political history, this Handbook places German history in a denser transnational context than any other general history of Germany. It underscores the centrality of war to the unfolding of German history, and shows how it dramatically affected the development of German nationalism and the structure of German politics. It also reaches out to scholars and students beyond the field of history with detailed and cutting-edge chapters on religious history and on literary history, as well as to contemporary observers, with reflections on Germany and the European Union, and on 'multi-cultural Germany'. Covering the period from around 1760 to the present, this Handbook represents a remarkable achievement of synthesis based on current scholarship. It constitutes the starting point for anyone trying to understand the complexities of German history as well as the state of scholarly reflection on Germany's dramatic, often destructive, integration into the community of modern nations. As it brings this story to the present, it also places the current post-unification Federal Republic of Germany into a multifaceted historical context. It will be an indispensable resource for scholars, students, and anyone interested in modern Germany.

Author : Shannon Woodcock
Publisher : Hammeron Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Albania
ISBN : 1910849030

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Life is War by Shannon Woodcock Pdf

Life is War: Surviving Dictatorship in Communist Albania features six intimate interviews with women and men who survived Enver Hoxha's communist regime. The book reveals how everyday people survived political persecution and oppression, and champions human resilience in the face of unrelenting political terror.

Author : Benjamin Leontief Alpers
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807854166

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Dictators, Democracy, and American Public Culture by Benjamin Leontief Alpers Pdf

Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the la

Author : Natasha M. Ezrow,Erica Frantz
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441173966

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Dictators and Dictatorships by Natasha M. Ezrow,Erica Frantz Pdf

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Author : John Connelly,Michael Grüttner
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0271047968

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Universities Under Dictatorship by John Connelly,Michael Grüttner Pdf

Author : Steven Levitsky,Lucan Way
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691223575

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Revolution and Dictatorship by Steven Levitsky,Lucan Way Pdf

Why the world’s most resilient dictatorships are products of violent revolution Revolution and Dictatorship explores why dictatorships born of social revolution—such as those in China, Cuba, Iran, the Soviet Union, and Vietnam—are extraordinarily durable, even in the face of economic crisis, large-scale policy failure, mass discontent, and intense external pressure. Few other modern autocracies have survived in the face of such extreme challenges. Drawing on comparative historical analysis, Steven Levitsky and Lucan Way argue that radical efforts to transform the social and geopolitical order trigger intense counterrevolutionary conflict, which initially threatens regime survival, but ultimately fosters the unity and state-building that supports authoritarianism. Although most revolutionary governments begin weak, they challenge powerful domestic and foreign actors, often bringing about civil or external wars. These counterrevolutionary wars pose a threat that can destroy new regimes, as in the cases of Afghanistan and Cambodia. Among regimes that survive, however, prolonged conflicts give rise to a cohesive ruling elite and a powerful and loyal coercive apparatus. This leads to the downfall of rival organizations and alternative centers of power, such as armies, churches, monarchies, and landowners, and helps to inoculate revolutionary regimes against elite defection, military coups, and mass protest—three principal sources of authoritarian breakdown. Looking at a range of revolutionary and nonrevolutionary regimes from across the globe, Revolution and Dictatorship shows why governments that emerge from violent conflict endure.

Author : Celia Donert,Ana Kladnik,Martin Sabrow
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9789633864289

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Making Sense of Dictatorship by Celia Donert,Ana Kladnik,Martin Sabrow Pdf

How did political power function in the communist regimes of Central and Eastern Europe after 1945? Making Sense of Dictatorship addresses this question with a particular focus on the acquiescent behavior of the majority of the population until, at the end of the 1980s, their rejection of state socialism and its authoritarian world. The authors refer to the concept of Sinnwelt, the way in which groups and individuals made sense of the world around them. The essays focus on the dynamics of everyday life and the extent to which the relationship between citizens and the state was collaborative or antagonistic. Each chapter addresses a different aspect of life in this period, including modernization, consumption and leisure, and the everyday experiences of “ordinary people,” single mothers, or those adopting alternative lifestyles. Empirically rich and conceptually original, the essays in this volume suggest new ways to understand how people make sense of everyday life under dictatorial regimes.

Author : Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,Alastair Smith
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610390453

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The Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita,Alastair Smith Pdf

A groundbreaking new theory of the real rules of politics: leaders do whatever keeps them in power, regardless of the national interest. As featured on the viral video Rules for Rulers, which has been viewed over 3 million times. Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith's canonical book on political science turned conventional wisdom on its head. They started from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don't care about the "national interest"-or even their subjects-unless they have to. This clever and accessible book shows that democracy is essentially just a convenient fiction. Governments do not differ in kind but only in the number of essential supporters, or backs that need scratching. The size of this group determines almost everything about politics: what leaders can get away with, and the quality of life or misery under them. The picture the authors paint is not pretty. But it just may be the truth, which is a good starting point for anyone seeking to improve human governance.

Author : Mauro F. Guillén,Emilio Ontiveros,Emilio Ontiveros Baeza
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107138681

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Global Turning Points by Mauro F. Guillén,Emilio Ontiveros,Emilio Ontiveros Baeza Pdf

This book offers an accessible, yet sophisticated analysis of major global turning points and future scenarios with an emphasis on actionable issues.

Author : David F. Schmitz
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006-03-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139455121

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The United States and Right-Wing Dictatorships, 1965-1989 by David F. Schmitz Pdf

Building on Schmitz's earlier work, Thank God They're on our Side, this is an examination of American policy toward right-wing dictatorships from the 1960s to the end of the Cold War. During the 1920s American leaders developed a policy of supporting authoritarian regimes because they were seen as stable, anti-communist, and capitalist. After 1965, however, American support for these regimes became a contested issue. The Vietnam War served to undercut the logic and rationale of supporting right-wing dictators. By systematically examining US support for right-wing dictatorships in Africa, Latin America, Europe, and Asia, and bringing together these disparate episodes, this book examines the persistence of older attitudes, the new debates brought about by the Vietnam War, and the efforts to bring about changes and an end to automatic US support for authoritarian regimes.