Selling a ‘Just’ War Framing, Legitimacy, and US Military Intervention
Butler sheds light on how American political leaders sell the decision to intervene with military force to the public and how a just war frame is employed in US foreign policy. He provides three post-Cold War examples of foreign policy crises: the Persian Gulf War (1990-91), Kosovo (1999), and Afgha...
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Format: | eBook |
Language: | English |
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London
Palgrave Macmillan UK
2012, 2012
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Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Summary: | Butler sheds light on how American political leaders sell the decision to intervene with military force to the public and how a just war frame is employed in US foreign policy. He provides three post-Cold War examples of foreign policy crises: the Persian Gulf War (1990-91), Kosovo (1999), and Afghanistan (2001) |
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Physical Description: | XIII, 284 p online resource |
ISBN: | 9780230374980 |