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Stefano Recchia - Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors: U.S. Civil-Military Relations and Multilateral Intervention - 9780801452918 - V9780801452918
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Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors: U.S. Civil-Military Relations and Multilateral Intervention

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Description for Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors: U.S. Civil-Military Relations and Multilateral Intervention Hardback. Series: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs. Num Pages: 296 pages, 8, 2 black & white line drawings, 6 tables. BIC Classification: 1KBB; HBJK; HBW; JPS; KCP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 571.

Why did American leaders work hard to secure multilateral approval from the United Nations or NATO for military interventions in Haiti, the Balkans, and Libya, while making only limited efforts to gain such approval for the 2003 Iraq War? In Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors, Stefano Recchia addresses this important question by drawing on declassified documents and about one hundred interviews with civilian and military leaders.The most assertive, hawkish, and influential civilian leaders, he argues, tend to downplay the costs of intervention, and when confronted with hesitant international partners they often want to bypass multilateral bodies. America's top-level generals, by contrast, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
296
Condition
New
Series
Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
Number of Pages
296
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801452918
SKU
V9780801452918
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Ref
99-19

About Stefano Recchia
Stefano Recchia is Lecturer in International Relations at the University of Cambridge. He is coeditor of Just and Unjust Military Intervention. Further information about his research is available at: www.stefanorecchia.net.

Reviews for Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors: U.S. Civil-Military Relations and Multilateral Intervention
"In Reassuring the Reluctant Warriors, Stefano Recchia addresses an important question: Why does the United States pursue multilateral military interventions when it ostensibly has the military capabilities to carry out these interventions on its own? Recchia's original answer to the question is an important contribution to the more general literature on military intervention and U.S. foreign policy in the post–Cold ... Read more

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