The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions write by Wolfgang Wagner. This book was released on 2020-07-09. The Democratic Politics of Military Interventions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. According to a widely shared notion, foreign affairs are exempted from democratic politics, i.e. party-political divisions are overcome-and should be overcome-for the sake of a common national interest. This book shows that this is not the case. Examining votes in the US Congress and several European parliaments, the book demonstrates that contestation over foreign affairs is barely different from contestation over domestic politics. Analyses of a new collection of deployment votes, of party manifestos, and of expert survey data show that political parties differ systematically over foreign policy and military interventions in particular. The left/right divide is the best guide to the pattern of party-political contestation: support is weakest at the far left of the spectrum and increases as one moves along the left/right axis to green, social democratic, liberal and conservative parties; amongst parties of the far right, support is again weaker than amongst parties of the centre. An analysis of parliamentary debates in Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom about the interventions in Afghanistan and against Daesh in Iraq and Syria shows that political parties also differ systematically in how they frame the use of force abroad. For example, parties on the right tend to frame their country's participation in the US-led missions in terms of national security and national interests whereas parties on the left tend to engage in 'spiral model thinking', i.e. they critically reflect on the unintended consequences of the use of force in fuelling the conflicts with the Taliban and Daesh.
Democracy by Force
Democracy by Force - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy by Force write by Karin von Hippel. This book was released on 2000. Democracy by Force available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the end of the Cold War, the international community, and the USA in particular, has intervened in a series of civil conflicts around the world. In a number of cases, where actions such as economic sanctions or diplomatic pressures have failed, military interventions have been undertaken. This 1999 book examines four US-sponsored interventions (Panama, Somalia, Haiti and Bosnia), focusing on efforts to reconstruct the state which have followed military action. Such nation-building is vital if conflict is not to recur. In each of the four cases, Karin von Hippel considers the factors which led the USA to intervene, the path of military intervention, and the nation-building efforts which followed. The book seeks to provide a greater understanding of the successes and failures of US policy, to improve strategies for reconstruction, and to provide some insight into the conditions under which intervention and nation-building are likely to succeed.
Democracy by Force
Democracy by Force - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy by Force write by Karin Von Hippel. This book was released on 2000. Democracy by Force available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bogen undersøger fire USA-støttede interventioner, foretaget efter den kolde krigs ophør: Panama, Somalia, Haiti og Bosnien
Agency and Ethics
Agency and Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Agency and Ethics write by Anthony F. Lang Jr.. This book was released on 2012-02-01. Agency and Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Why does political conflict seem to consistently interfere with attempts to provide aid, end ethnic discord, or restore democracy? To answer this question, Agency and Ethics examines how the norms that originally motivate an intervention often create conflict between the intervening powers, outside powers, and the political agents who are the victims of the intervention. Three case studies are drawn upon to illustrate this phenomena: the British and American intervention in Bolshevik Russia in 1918; the British and French intervention in Egypt in 1956; and the American and United Nations intervention in Somalia in 1993. Although rarely categorized together, these three interventions shared at least one strong commonality: all failed to achieve their professed goals, with the troops being ignominiously recalled in each example. Lang concludes by addressing the dilemma of how to resolve complex humanitarian emergencies in the twenty-first century without the necessity of resorting to military intervention.
Democratic jihad? : military intervention and democracy
Democratic jihad? : military intervention and democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratic jihad? : military intervention and democracy write by Lene Siljeholm Christiansen, Nils Petter Gleditsch, Håvard Hegre. This book was released on 2007. Democratic jihad? : military intervention and democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abstract: Democracies rarely if ever fight one another, but they participate in wars as frequently as autocracies. They tend to win the wars in which they participate. Democracies frequently build large alliances in wartime, but not only with other democracies. From time to time democracies intervene militarily in ongoing conflicts. The democratic peace may contribute to a normative justification for such interventions, for the purpose of promoting democracy and eventually for the promotion of peace. This is reinforced by an emerging norm of humanitarian intervention. Democracies may have a motivation to intervene in non-democracies, even in the absence of ongoing conflict, for the purpose of regime change. The recent Iraq War may be interpreted in this perspective. A strong version of this type of foreign policy may be interpreted as a democratic crusade. The paper examines the normative and theoretical foundations of democratic interventionism. An empirical investigation of interventions in the period 1960-96 indicates that democracies intervene quite frequently, but rarely against other democracies. In the short term, democratic intervention appears to be successfully promoting democratization, but the target states tend to end up among the unstable semi-democracies. The most widely publicized recent interventions are targeted on poor or resource-dependent countries in non-democratic neighborhoods. Previous research has found these characteristics to reduce the prospects for stable democracy. Thus, forced democratization is unpredictable with regard to achieving long-term democracy and potentially harmful with regard to securing peace. But short-term military successes may stimulate more interventions until the negative consequences become more visible.
