LEADER 04902nam 22006375 450 001 9910162787903321 005 20230217120445.0 010 $a1-4875-1176-0 010 $a1-4875-1175-2 024 7 $a10.3138/9781487511753 035 $a(CKB)3710000001042726 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4793276 035 $a(DE-B1597)498574 035 $a(OCoLC)1054882028 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781487511753 035 $a(OCoLC)970693937 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)musev2_107351 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001042726 100 $a20180829d2018 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aFighting for Credibility $eUS Reputation and International Politics /$fFrank P. Harvey, John Mitton 210 1$aToronto :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2017 215 $a1 online resource (311 pages) 311 $a1-4875-0075-0 311 $a1-4875-2054-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction ; Chemical Weapons in Syria, 2012-13 ; Credibility and International Politics: The Case for Reputations; Credibility and International Politics: The Case against Reputations; Coercive Outcome in Syria ; Syria as a Deterrence/Compellence "Success"? ; Postscript ; Outline and Objectives. 327 $a1 Reputations Research and Premature Closure of Inquiry The Press-Mercer-Hopf Consensus ; 1.1 Hopf (1994) "Peripheral Visions" ; 1.2 Press (2005) "Calculating Credibility" ; 1.3 Mercer (1996) "Reputation and International Politics" ; Premature Closure of Inquiry: An Illustration. 327 $a1.4 Application of P-M-H Consensus Excludes Important Research on International ReputationsThe Missing Scholarship ; Conclusion ; 2 Reputations Matter: Rational Deterrence Theory and Credibility Reconsidered; 2.1 Four Core Prerequisites of Credible Coercive Threats ; RDT and Necessity and Sufficiency; Reassessing Fearon ; 2.2 Reputations and Imperfect Information. 327 $a2.3 Similarity and Transferability of Reputations and Credibility2.4 Reputations and Miscalculations ; 2.5 General versus Specific Reputations; 2.6 Reputations, Credibility, and Transferability Are in the Eyes of the Beholder; Conclusion ; 3 US Reputation Building in Deterrence Encounters, 1991-2003 ; Case 1 -- Bosnia-Herzegovina (1992-5) ; Case 2 -- Kosovo (1998-9). 327 $aCase 3 -- Iraq (1991-2003) Conclusion ; 4 The Strategic Logic of US Coercion: Explaining Deterrence Failures and Successes in Syria, 2011-13; 4.1 Defining Success in Syria; 4.2 Syria: RDT versus P-M-H ; US Reputations and Past Actions ; Escalation and Mission Creep ; 4.3 Protracted Crises, Probes, and Tipping Points ; Assad's Miscalculations. 327 $a4.4 Credibility Paradox -- Punishments and Promises. 330 $a"When Bashar al-Assad used chemical weapons against his own people in Syria, he clearly crossed President Barack Obama's "red line." At the time, many argued that the president had to bomb in order to protect America's reputation for toughness, and therefore its credibility, abroad; others countered that concerns regarding reputation were overblown, and that reputations are irrelevant for coercive diplomacy. Whether international reputations matter is the question at the heart of Fighting for Credibility. For skeptics, past actions and reputations have no bearing on an adversary's assessment of credibility; power and interests alone determine whether a threat is believed. Using a nuanced and sophisticated theory of rational deterrence, Frank P. Harvey and John Mitton argue the opposite: ignoring reputations sidesteps important factors about how adversaries perceive threats. Focusing on cases of asymmetric US encounters with smaller powers since the end of the Cold War including Bosnia, Kosovo, Iraq, and Syria, Harvey and Mitton reveal that reputations matter for credibility in international politics. This dynamic and deeply documented study successfully brings reputation back to the table of foreign diplomacy."--$cProvided by publisher. 606 $aWorld politics$y21st century 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y1993-2001 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y2001-2009 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y2009- 607 $aE?tats-Unis$xRelations exte?rieures$y1993-2001 607 $aE?tats-Unis$xRelations exte?rieures$y2001-2009 607 $aE?tats-Unis$xRelations exte?rieures$y2009- 607 $aUnited States$2fast 615 0$aWorld politics 676 $a327.73 700 $aHarvey$b Frank P.$0573670 702 $aMitton$b John 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910162787903321 996 $aFighting for Credibility$91938985 997 $aUNINA