Failing to Win : : Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics /

Failing to Win : : Perceptions of Victory and Defeat in International Politics / / Dominic Tierney, Dominic D. P Johnson.

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How do people decide which country came out ahead in a war or a crisis? In Failing to Win, Dominic Johnson and Dominic Tierney dissect the psychological factors that predispose leaders, media, and the public to perceive outcomes as victories or defeats--often creating wide gaps between perceptions a...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
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Johnson, Dominic D. P,
Tierney, Dominic,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2009]
©2006
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (357 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Score-keeping
  • 3. Match-fixing
  • 4. Sources of Variation
  • 5. The Cuban Missile Crisis
  • 6. The Tet Offensive
  • 7. The Yom Kippur War
  • 8. The U.S. Intervention in Somalia
  • 9. America at War
  • 10. Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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