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Why do some autocratic leaders pursue aggressive or expansionist foreign policies, while others are much more cautious in their use of military force? The first book to focus systematically on the foreign policy of different types of authoritarian regimes, Dictators at War and Peace breaks new ground in our understanding of the international behavior of dictators.
Jessica L. P. Weeks explains why certain kinds of regimes are less likely to resort to war than others, why some are more likely to win the wars they start, and why some authoritarian leaders face domestic punishment for foreign policy failures whereas others can weather all but the most serious military defeat. Using novel cross-national data, Weeks looks at various nondemocratic regimes, including those of Saddam Hussein and Joseph Stalin; the Argentine junta at the time of the Falklands War, the military government in Japan before and during World War II, and the North Vietnamese communist regime. She finds that the differences in the conflict behavior of distinct kinds of autocracies are as great as those between democracies and dictatorships. Indeed, some types of autocracies are no more belligerent or reckless than democracies, casting doubt on the common view that democracies are more selective about war than autocracies.
Contents
Introduction1. Authoritarian Regimes and the Domestic Politics of War and Peace
Audiences, Preferences, and Decisions about War
Hypotheses, Implications, and Cases2. Initiating International Conflict
Measuring Authoritarian Regime Type
Modeling the Initiation of International Conflict
Results3. Winners, Losers, and Survival
Selecting Wars
War Outcomes in the Past Century
Outcomes of Militarized Interstate Disputes, 1946-2000
The Consequences of Defeat4. Personalist Dictators: Shooting from the Hip
Saddam Hussein and the 1990 Invasion of Kuwait
Josef Stalin: A Powerful but Loose Cannon5. Juntas: Using the Only Language They Understand
Argentina and the Falklands/Malvinas War
Japan's Road to World War II6. Machines: Looking Before They Leap
The North Vietnamese Wars against the US, South Vietnam, and Cambodia
The Soviet Union in the Post-Stalin EraConclusion: Dictatorship, War, and PeaceAppendix
Notes
Works Cited
Index
