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986385
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b740755
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Podliska, Bradley F.
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Acting alone : : a scientific study of American hegemony and unilateral use-of-force decision making /\ Bradley F. Podliska.
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham, Md. :: Lexington Books,, ©2010.
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| Series Statement
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Innovations in the study of world politics
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1 online resource (xvi, 255 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0739142534
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: 1282581937
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: 661258193X
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: 9780739142530
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: 9781282581937
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: 9786612581939
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0739142518
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9780739142516
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 227-245) and index.
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| Contents
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List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Chapter 01. Introduction; Chapter 02. Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision Making; Chapter 03. Statistical Tests: U.S. Unilateral Uses of Force since 1937; Chapter 04. Does the Type of Crisis Matter? An Experimental Test; Chapter 05. Opening Up the "Black Box" of a President's Unilateral Decision: Case Studies of the 1991 Gulf War, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion, and 1989 Panama Invasion; Chapter 06. Conclusion; Appendix A: Coding of Crisis Dyads; Appendix B: Experiment Instructions and Crisis Scenarios; Bibliography; Index; About the Author.
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| Abstract
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Acting Alone: A Scientific Study of American Hegemony and Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision Making is a straight-forward analysis of unilateral U.S. military actions, which are dependent upon the power disparity between the U.S. and the rest of the world. In solving the puzzle as to why individual presidents have made the "wrong" decision to act alone, the author lays out a president's behavior, during a crisis, as a two-step decision process. Acting Alone reviews the well-studied first decision, deciding to use force, based on international conflict literature and organized along traditional.
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USA
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Hegemony-- United States.
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Intervention (International law)
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Presidents-- United States.
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Unilateral acts (International law)
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War and emergency powers-- United States.
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Diplomatic relations.
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Hegemony.
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Intervention (International law)
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Military policy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Globalization.
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Presidents.
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Unilateral acts (International law)
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War and emergency powers.
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United States, Foreign relations.
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United States, Military policy.
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United States.
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| Dewey Classification
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327.1/170973
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JZ1312.P64 2010eb
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