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Autore: |
Hybel Alex Roberto
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Titolo: |
The Bush administrations and Saddam Hussein [[electronic resource] ] : deciding on conflict / / Alex Roberto Hybel and Justin Matthew Kaufman
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Pubblicazione: | New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006 |
Edizione: | 1st ed. |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (209 p.) |
Disciplina: | 956.7044/32 |
Soggetto topico: | Persian Gulf War, 1991 |
Iraq War, 2003-2011 | |
Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations Iraq |
Iraq Foreign relations United States | |
United States Foreign relations 1989- | |
United States Military policy | |
Altri autori: |
KaufmanJustin Matthew
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Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [179]-186) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Introduction: Two Surprises, Two Wars, Two Presidents, One Family; Chapter One: Alternative Theories of Foreign Policy-Making; Chapter Two: Two Harmful Surprises; Chapter Three: The Logic of Surprise versus the Logic of Surprise Avoidance; Chapter Four: Two Very Different Wars; Chapter Five: The Apple Sometimes Falls Close to the Tree; Chapter Six: The Absence of a Rational Process; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | The authors present a vital analysis of the foreign policy-making processes of the two Bush administrations prior to the attacks on Iraq. In a thorough comparison, they show how both presidents used historical analogies to evaluate information, relied on instinct to formulate decisions, and drew on moral language to justify their choices. |
Titolo autorizzato: | The Bush administrations and Saddam Hussein ![]() |
ISBN: | 1-137-35702-9 |
1-281-36089-9 | |
9786611360894 | |
0-230-60114-6 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910784247703321 |
Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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