How democracies lose small wars : state, society, and the failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam
Merom, Gil, 1956-2003
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Cambridge, UK ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Collation:
xiii, 295 p. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-276) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Military superiority and victory in small wars: historical observations -- The structural origins of defiance: the middle-class, the marketplace of ideas, and the normative gap -- The structural origins of tenacity: national alignment and compartmentalization -- The French war in Algeria: a strategic, political, and economic overview -- French instrumental dependence and its consequences -- The development of a normative difference in France, and its consequences -- The French struggle to contain the growth of the normative gap and the rise of the "Democratic Agenda" -- Political relevance and its consequences in France -- The Israeli War in Lebanon: a strategic, political, and economic overview -- Israeli instrumental dependence and its consequences -- The development of a normative difference in Israel, and its consequences -- The Israeli struggle to contain the growth of the normative gap and the rise of the "democratic agenda" -- Political relevance and its consequences in Israel -- Conclusion.
ISBN:
0521008778 (pbk)0521804035
Dewey class:
355.02
LC class:
U241U241MER
Language:
English
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BRN:
49355