How Democracies Lose Small Wars

How Democracies Lose Small Wars
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 318
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ISBN-10 : 0521008778
ISBN-13 : 9780521008778
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Book Synopsis How Democracies Lose Small Wars by : Gil Merom

Download or read book How Democracies Lose Small Wars written by Gil Merom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-08-04 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1. Introduction 2. Military superiority and victory in small wars: historical observations 3. The structural original of defiance: the middle-class, the marketplace of ideas, and the normative gap 4. The structural origins of tenacity: national alignment and compartmentalization 5. The French war in Algeria: a strategic, political, and economic overview 6. French instrumental dependence and its consequences 7. The development of a normative difference in France and its consequences 8. The French struggle to contain the growth of the normative gap and the rise of the 'democratic agenda' 9. Political relevance and its consequences in France 10. The Israeli war in Lebanon: a strategic, political, and economic overview 11. Israeli instrumental dependence and its consequences 12. The development of a normative difference in Israel and its consequences 13. The Israeli struggle to contain the growth of the normative gap and the rise of the 'democratic agenda' 14. Political relevance and its consequences in Israel.


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