Covert Regime Change (eBook)

America's Secret Cold War

Lindsey A. O'Rourke (Autor)

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2018
330 Seiten
Cornell University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-3069-6 (ISBN)

Infos

O'Rourke's book offers a onestop shop for understanding foreign-imposed regime change. Covert Regime Change is an impressive book and required reading for anyone interested in understanding hidden power in world politics.― Political Science Quarterly 

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. 

Autor

Lindsey A. O’Rourke is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Boston College. Her research focuses on regime change, international security, and US foreign policy.

Inhalt

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 U.S.-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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Reihe/Serie: Cornell Studies in Security Affairs
• Zusatzinfo: 7 charts
• Verlagsort: Ithaca
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: American foreign policy • American History • american intervention regime changes • American regime change operations • Capitalism • case studies foreign policy • case studies international relations • case studies regime changes • causes of regime change • CIA • CIA plots • CIA plots theory • codebreaking • Cold War • COLD WAR HISTORY • cold war politics • cold war regime change operations • Covert Regime Change • enhance U.S. security and power • Espionage • examples of regime changes • foreign regime changes • Global Politics and Strategy • global regime changes • government library • Hegemonic operations • History • history of regime changes • Intelligence and CounterIntelligence • international espionage • international policy theory • international political science • International Political Theory • international security studies • military history cold war • National Security Studies • Political Intelligence • political theory and reseach • regime change • regime change, covert operations, spies, CIA, Cold War, security studies, international relations, security affairs, secrecy • regime changes during the cold war • Soviet Union • studying regime changes • successful regime changes • theoretical framework for international policies • understanding cold war politics • understanding the cold war • United States • u.s. backed regime changes • US-backed regime changes during the Cold War, CIA, Cold War, security studies, international relations, clandestine operations, what motivates states to attempt regime change • World War II
• ISBN-10: 1-5017-3069-X / 150173069X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-3069-6 / 9781501730696