Why democracies fight dictators /

"In Why Democracies Fight Dictators Schramm explores the dynamics that intensify conflict between liberal democracies and personalist regimes. Much of the recent Political Science scholarship has been devoted to explaining why democracies don't go to war with one another, but there is stil...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schramm, Madison (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Making meaning and making monsters
  • Patterns of conflict between liberal democracies and personalist regimes
  • "His face took on a Mussolini-like mask" : American and British decision-making in the Suez Crisis
  • "Playing footsie with Saddam" : American and British decision-making in the Gulf Crisis and War
  • Not another Hitler-non-democracies response to the Gulf Crisis
  • Conclusion.