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Death, Dominance, and State-Building

The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention

By: Roger D. Petersen

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Death, Dominance, and State-Building

The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention

By: Roger D. Petersen

In Death, Dominance, and State-Building, Roger D. Petersen offers a definitive work on the course, conduct, and aftermath of the Iraq war. He uniquely combines an accessible analytical framework with detailed case studies that unpack the dynamics between the US military and various Shia and Sunni insurgents. The book covers the entire 2003-2023 period in Iraq, incorporating the insights and voices of US military personnel, Iraqi citizens, and even Iraqi insurgents. While it comprehensively covers the past in Iraq, it also draws lessons for the future of American military intervention.

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Oxford University Press

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0197760740

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Western Intervention in the Balkans

The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict

By: Roger D. Petersen

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Western Intervention in the Balkans

The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict

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Conflicts involve powerful experiences. The residue of these experiences is captured by the concept and language of emotion. Indiscriminate killing creates fear; targeted violence produces anger and a desire for vengeance; political status reversals spawn resentment; cultural prejudices sustain ethnic contempt. These emotions can become resources for political entrepreneurs. A broad range of Western interventions are based on a view of human nature as narrowly rational. Correspondingly, intervention policy generally aims to alter material incentives ('sticks and carrots') to influence behavior. In response, poorer and weaker actors who wish to block or change this Western implemented 'game' use emotions as resources. This book examines the strategic use of emotion in the conflicts and interventions occurring in the Western Balkans over a twenty-year period. The book concentrates on the conflicts among Albanian and Slavic populations (Kosovo, Montenegro, Macedonia, South Serbia), along with some comparisons to Bosnia.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139503308

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Resistance and Rebellion

Lessons from Eastern Europe

By: Roger D. Petersen

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Resistance and Rebellion

Lessons from Eastern Europe

By: Roger D. Petersen

Resistance and Rebellion: Lessons from Eastern Europe explains how ordinary people become involved in resistance and rebellion against powerful regimes. The book shows how a sequence of casual forces - social norms, focal points, rational calculation - operate to drive individuals into roles of passive resistance and, at a second stage, into participation in community-based rebellion organization. By linking the operation of these mechanisms to observable social structures, the work generates predictions about which types of community and society are most likely to form and sustain resistance and rebellion. The empirical material centres around Lithuanian anti-Soviet resistance in both the 1940s and the 1987–91 period. Using the Lithuanian experience as a baseline, comparisons with several other Eastern European countries demonstrate the breadth and depth of the theory. The book contributes to both the general literature on political violence and protest, as well as the theoretical literature on collective action.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139428160

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Death, Dominance, and State-Building

The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention

By: Roger D. Petersen

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Death, Dominance, and State-Building

The US in Iraq and the Future of American Military Intervention

By: Roger D. Petersen

The definitive work on the course, conduct, and aftermath of the Iraq war. In Death, Dominance, and State-Building, the eminent scholar of conflict Roger D. Petersen provides the first comprehensive analytic history of post-invasion Iraq. Although the war is almost universally derided as one of the biggest foreign policy blunders of the post-Cold War era, Petersen argues that the course and conduct of the conflict is poorly understood. He begins by outlining an accessible framework for analyzing complex, fluid, and violent internal conflicts. He then applies that framework to a variety of diverse case studies to break down the strategic interplay among the US military forces and Shia and Sunni insurgent organizations as it played out in Baghdad, Anbar, and Hawija. Highlighting the struggle for dominance between Shia and Sunni in Baghdad, Petersen offers a reconsideration of the Surge. He also addresses failures of state-building in Iraqi Kurdistan. Critically, he shows how the legacy of the US occupation and presence from 2003-2011 shaped Iraq's political and security contours from 2011-2023. Comprehensive, analytically sophisticated, and subtle, this book draws lessons relevant to future American military interventions from what most regard as the US's most disastrous foreign policy adventure since Vietnam. The US cannot simply wish away insurgencies, which are always going to occur. The question is what the US and other great powers might do about them in the future.

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Oxford University Press

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0197760767

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Networks and Institutions in Europe's Emerging Markets

By: Roger Schoenman

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Networks and Institutions in Europe's Emerging Markets

By: Roger Schoenman

Do ties between political parties and businesses harm or benefit the development of market institutions? The post-communist transition offers an unparalleled opportunity to explore when and how networks linking the polity and the economy support the development of functional institutions. A quantitative and qualitative analysis covering eleven post-socialist countries combined with detailed case studies of Bulgaria, Poland and Romania documents how the most successful post-communist countries are those in which dense networks link politicians and businesspeople, as long as politicians are constrained by intense political competition. This combination allowed Poland to emerge with stable institutions while Bulgaria demonstrates that in developing economies intense political competition alone is harmful in the absence of dense personal and ownership networks. Indeed, as Romania illustrates, networks are so critical that their weakness is not mitigated even by low political competition. This title is available as Open Access on Cambridge Books Online and via Knowledge Unlatched.

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1139992341

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Western Intervention in the Balkans

The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict

By: Roger D. Petersen

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The Strategic Use of Emotion in Conflict

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Book's by Roger D. Petersen

Death, Dominance, and State-Building

Death, Dominance, and State-Building

Western Intervention in the Balkans

Western Intervention in the Balkans

Resistance and Rebellion

Resistance and Rebellion

Death, Dominance, and State-Building

Death, Dominance, and State-Building

Networks and Institutions in Europe's Emerging Markets

Networks and Institutions in Europe's Emerging Markets

Western Intervention in the Balkans

Western Intervention in the Balkans

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