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Toppling foreign governments : the logic of regime change, Melissa Willard-Foster

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Toppling foreign governments : the logic of regime change
Title
Toppling foreign governments
Title remainder
the logic of regime change
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Melissa Willard-Foster
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Language
eng
Summary
Melissa Willard-Foster explores the question of why stronger nations overthrow governments when they could attain their aims at the bargaining table. She identifies a central cause--the targeted leader's domestic political vulnerabilty--that not only gives the leader motive to resist a strong nation's demands, making a bargain more difficult to attain, but also gives the stronger naiton reason to believe that regime change will be comparatively cheap. As long as the targeted leader's domestic opposition is willing to collaborate with the foreign power, the latter is likely to conclude that ousting the leader is more cost effective than negotiation. Willard-Foster analyzes 133 instances of regime change, ranging from covert operations to major military invasion, spanning over two hundred years. She also conducts three in-depth case studies that support her contention that domestically and militarily weak leaders appear more costly to coerce than overthrow and that, as long as they remain ubiquitous, foreign-imposed regime change is likely to endure. --
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Willard-Foster, Melissa
Illustrations
illustrations
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
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bibliography
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  • Regime change
  • Regime change
  • Regime change
  • Intervention (International law)
  • Intervention (International law)
  • International relations
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Toppling foreign governments : the logic of regime change, Melissa Willard-Foster
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Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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volume
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  • nc
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rdacarrier
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text
Content type code
  • txt
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rdacontent
Contents
Why the strong impose regime change on the weak -- How states impose regime change -- Testing the logic of foreign-imposed regime change -- The Cold War : American policy toward Bolivia and Guatemala, 1952-54 -- The Cold War : Soviet policy toward Poland and Hungary, 1956 -- The post-9/11 era : regime change and rogues, Iraq 2003, Libya 2003, and Libya 2011
Control code
on1038022816
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
332 pages
Isbn
9780812251043
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1038022816
Label
Toppling foreign governments : the logic of regime change, Melissa Willard-Foster
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Why the strong impose regime change on the weak -- How states impose regime change -- Testing the logic of foreign-imposed regime change -- The Cold War : American policy toward Bolivia and Guatemala, 1952-54 -- The Cold War : Soviet policy toward Poland and Hungary, 1956 -- The post-9/11 era : regime change and rogues, Iraq 2003, Libya 2003, and Libya 2011
Control code
on1038022816
Dimensions
24 cm
Extent
332 pages
Isbn
9780812251043
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)1038022816

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