Crisis Diplomacy: The Great Powers Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century

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Cambridge University Press, 29. 9. 1994 - Počet stran: 426
Although much has been written on international crises, the literature suffers from a lack of historical depth, and a proliferation of competing theoretical frameworks. Through case studies drawing on the rich historical experience of crisis diplomacy, James Richardson offers an integrated analysis based on a critical assessment of the main theoretical approaches. Due weight is given to systemic and structural factors, but also to the specific historical factors of each case, and to theories which do not presuppose rationality as well as those which do. Crisis diplomacy the major political choices made by decision makers, and their strategies, judgments and misjudgments - is found to play a crucial role in each of the case studies. This broad historical inquiry is especially timely when the ending of the Cold War has removed the settled parameters within which the superpowers conducted their crisis diplomacy.
 

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Introduction aims and approach
3
Theories of crisis behaviour
10
Crisis management versus crisis diplomacy
25
PART II
35
The Eastern crisis 18391841
37
The Crimean war crisis 18531854
69
The RussoJapanese crisis 19031904
106
The Sudeten crisis 1938
135
The choice of goals values interests and objectives
236
Selective perception and misperception
255
Crisis bargaining
281
Internal politics
306
The outcome and the risk of war
327
PART IV
347
Conclusions theory and policy
349
Notes
370

The FrancoPrussian and Agadir crises
161
Pearl Harbor and the Berlin crises
181
PART III
217
Crises and the international system arenas alignments and norms
219
Select bibliography
412
Index
419
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