Feaver / Gelpi Choosing Your Battles

American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force
With a New afterword by the authors
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4145-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Feaver, Peter D.

Gelpi, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES vii

PREFACE xi

CHAPTER ONE

Introduction 1

CHAPTER TWO

The Civil-Military Opinion Gap over the Use of Force 21

CHAPTER THREE

The Impact of Elite Veterans on American Decisions

to Use Force 64

CHAPTER FOUR

Casualty Sensitivity and Civil-Military Relations 95

CHAPTER FIVE

Exploring the Determinants of Casualty Sensitivity 149

CHAPTER SIX

Conclusion 184

REFERENCES 215

NAME INDEX 229

SUBJECT INDEX 233

Über Autor(innen)

Peter D. Feaver is Alexander F. Hehmeyer Professor of Political Science and Public Policy at Duke University. He is the author of Armed Servants and Guarding the Guardians as well as coeditor of Soldiers and Civilians. Christopher Gelpi is Associate Professor of Political Science at Duke University. He is the author of The Power of Legitimacy (Princeton).