Toppling Foreign Governments : : The Logic of Regime Change / / Melissa Willard-Foster.

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• VerfasserIn: Willard-Foster, Melissa,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2018]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 8 illus.

In 2011, the United States launched its third regime-change attempt in a decade. Like earlier targets, Libya's Muammar Qaddafi had little hope of defeating the forces stacked against him. He seemed to recognize this when calling for a cease-fire just after the intervention began. But by then, t...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• CONTENTS
• Introduction
• Chapter 1. Why the Strong Impose Regime Change on the Weak
• Chapter 2. How States Impose Regime Change
• Chapter 3. Testing the Logic of Foreign-Imposed Regime Change
• Chapter 4. The Cold War: American Policy Toward Bolivia and Guatemala, 1952–54
• Chapter 5. The Cold War: Soviet Policy Toward Poland and Hungary, 1956
• Chapter 6. The Post-9/11 Era: Regime Change and Rogues, Iraq 2003, Libya 2003, and Libya 2011
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1. Foreign-Imposed Regime Change, 1816–2007
• Appendix 2. A Game Theoretic Model of Regime Change
• NOTES
• INDEX
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS