Covert Regime Change : : America's Secret Cold War / / Lindsey A. O'Rourke.
States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d'état, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups.In Covert Regime Change...
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O'Rourke, Lindsey A., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Covert Regime Change : America's Secret Cold War / Lindsey A. O'Rourke. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018] ©2018 1 online resource (330 p.) : 7 charts text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Cornell Studies in Security Affairs Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The False Promise of Covert Regime Change -- 2. Causes: Why Do States Launch Regime Changes? -- 3. Conduct: Why Do States Intervene Covertly versus Overtly? -- 4. Consequences: How Effective Are Covert Regime Changes? -- 5. Overview of US-Backed Regime Changes during the Cold War -- 6. Rolling Back the Iron Curtain -- 7. Containment, Coup d'État, and the Covert War in Vietnam -- 8. Dictators and Democrats in the Dominican Republic -- 9. Covert Regime Change after the Cold War -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star States seldom resort to war to overthrow their adversaries. They are more likely to attempt to covertly change the opposing regime, by assassinating a foreign leader, sponsoring a coup d'état, meddling in a democratic election, or secretly aiding foreign dissident groups.In Covert Regime Change, Lindsey A. O'Rourke shows us how states really act when trying to overthrow another state. She argues that conventional focus on overt cases misses the basic causes of regime change. O'Rourke provides substantive evidence of types of security interests that drive states to intervene. Offensive operations aim to overthrow a current military rival or break up a rival alliance. Preventive operations seek to stop a state from taking certain actions, such as joining a rival alliance, that may make them a future security threat. Hegemonic operations try to maintain a hierarchical relationship between the intervening state and the target government. Despite the prevalence of covert attempts at regime change, most operations fail to remain covert and spark blowback in unanticipated ways.Covert Regime Change assembles an original dataset of all American regime change operations during the Cold War. This fund of information shows the United States was ten times more likely to try covert rather than overt regime change during the Cold War. Her dataset allows O'Rourke to address three foundational questions: What motivates states to attempt foreign regime change? Why do states prefer to conduct these operations covertly rather than overtly? How successful are such missions in achieving their foreign policy goals? Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) Außenpolitik. Cold War. Eiserner Vorhang. Geheimdienst. Griechenland. Großbritannien. Militär. Ost-West-Konflikt. Regime change Case studies. Regime change History 20th century. Regime. Staat. USA. Vietnam. Political Science & Political History. Security Studies. U.S. History. POLITICAL SCIENCE / Security (National & International). bisacsh regime change, covert operations, spies, CIA, Cold War, security studies, international relations, security affairs, secrecy. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 9783110606553 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 English 9783110604252 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2018 9783110603255 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Economics and Social Sciences 2018 English 9783110604016 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Social Sciences 2018 9783110603231 ZDB-23-DSW print 9781501730696 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501730689 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501730689 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501730689/original |
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