TY - BOOK ID - 77899457 TI - Diversionary war PY - 2012 SN - 0804784930 9780804784931 0804782458 0804782466 9780804782456 9780804782463 PB - Stanford, California Stanford Security Studies DB - UniCat KW - Politics and war. KW - War KW - Political stability. KW - International relations KW - Armed conflict (War) KW - Conflict, Armed (War) KW - Fighting KW - Hostilities KW - Wars KW - Military art and science KW - Peace KW - Destabilization (Political science) KW - Political instability KW - Stability, Political KW - Consensus (Social sciences) KW - Legitimacy of governments KW - Causes of war KW - War and politics KW - Causes. KW - Decision making. KW - Political aspects KW - Political stability KW - Politics and war KW - #SBIB:327.5H21 KW - #SBIB:327.6H01 KW - Decision making KW - Causes KW - Vrede – oorlog, oorlogssituaties KW - Internationale en diplomatieke relaties: specifieke conflicten UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77899457 AB - The very existence of diversionary wars is hotly contested in the press and among political scientists. Yet no book has so far tackled the key questions of whether leaders deliberately provoke conflicts abroad to distract the public from problems at home, or whether such gambles offer a more effective response to domestic discontent than appeasing opposition groups with political or economic concessions. Diversionary War addresses these questions by reinterpreting key historical examples of diversionary war—such as Argentina's 1982 Falklands Islands invasion and U.S. President James Buchanan's decision to send troops to Mormon Utah in 1857. It breaks new ground by demonstrating that the use of diversionary tactics is, at best, an ineffectual strategy for managing civil unrest, and draws important conclusions for policymakers—identifying several new, and sometimes counterintuitive, avenues by which embattled states can be pushed toward adopting alternative political, social, or economic strategies for managing domestic unrest. ER -