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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Podliska Bradley F"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Acting alone [[electronic resource] ] : a scientific study of American hegemony and unilateral use-of-force decision making / / Bradley F. Podliska"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"Lanham, Md., : Lexington Books, c2010"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-282-58193-7"]
[{"$nulls":4},"9786612581939"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-7391-4253-4"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (424 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Innovations in the study of world politics"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"327.1/170973"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Hegemony - United States"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Presidents - United States"]
[{"$nulls":4},"War and emergency powers - United States"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Unilateral acts (International law)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Intervention (International law)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Electronic books."]
[{"$nulls":4},"United States Foreign relations"]
[{"$nulls":4},"United States Military policy"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-245) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"List of Figures; List of Table; Acknowledgments; 1; Introduction; The Puzzle and Research Question; Contributions of This Study; Methodological Strategy: Statistical, Experimental, and Case Studies; Plan of the Book; 2; Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision Making; Introduction; American Hegemonic Behavior; American Military Power; Employing American Military Power: A Two-Step Decision Process; The First Decision: Why a President Makes a Use-of-Force Decision; The Second Decision: Why a President Makes a Unilateral Use-of-Force Decision; A New Model of Unilateral Use-of Force Decision Making"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Conclusion3; Statistical Tests; Introduction; Hypotheses; The Data Sets; The Crisis Dyad 52; Dependent Variable; Explanatory Variables; Control Variables; Statistical Tests; The Probit Framework; The Heckman Probit Model; Conclusion; 4; Does the Type of Crisis Matter?; Introduction; The Study; Experimental Method; Humanitarian Crisis Results; Regime Change Results; National Security Results; Discussion; Conclusion; 5; "]
[{"$nulls":4},"Opening Up the \"Black Box\" of a President's Unilateral Decision; Introduction; 1991 Gulf War (Multilateral Case); Bay of Pigs (Unilateral Case)"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1989 Panama Invasion (Unilateral Case)Conclusion; 6; Conclusion; Introduction; Implications from the Statistical Analysis; Implications from the Experimental Analysis; Implications from the Case Study Analysis; Directions for Future Research; Conclusion; Appendix A; Coding of Crisis Dyads; Appendix B; Experiment Instructions and Crisis Scenarios; Bibliography; Index; About the Author"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","Acting Alone offers an unprecedented scientifically-based answer to the question of why presidents, regardless of political party, make decisions to use unilateral military force. By using three methods to test U.S. crisis behavior since 1937, the author of Acting Alone makes the case that presidents are realists and make a unilateral decision based on a wide military gap with an opponent, an opponent located in the Western hemisphere, and a national security threat."]