Secret Wars (eBook)

Covert Conflict in International Politics

Austin Carson (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
9780691184241 (ISBN)

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Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S.-occupied Iraq. Investigating what governments keep secret during wars and why, Austin Carson argues that leaders maintain the secrecy of state involvement as a response to the persistent concern of limiting war. Keeping interventions ';backstage' helps control escalation dynamics, insulating leaders from domestic pressures while communicating their interest in keeping a war contained.Carson shows that covert interventions can help control escalation, but they are almost always detected by other major powers. However, the shared value of limiting war can lead adversaries to keep secret the interventions they detect, as when American leaders concealed clashes with Soviet pilots during the Korean War. Escalation concerns can also cause leaders to ignore covert interventions that have become an open secret. From Nazi Germany's role in the Spanish Civil War to American covert operations during the Vietnam War, Carson presents new insights about some of the most influential conflicts of the twentieth century.Parting the curtain on the secret side of modern war, Secret Wars provides important lessons about how rival state powers collude and compete, and the ways in which they avoid outright military confrontations.

Autor

Austin Carson is assistant professor of political science at the University of Chicago.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 25.9.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in International History and Politics
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Europäische / Internationale Politik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Adobe • Afghanistan • Aircraft • Airpower • air supremacy • air-to-air combat • american intelligence • American weapons • Asymmetric warfare • belligerent • Bernard Brodie (military strategist) • Bomb • brinkmanship • Cambridge University Press • Career • Case study • central government • Central Intelligence Agency • China • China–United States relations • Civil Wars • Cold War • Cold War (1985–91) • collusion • combat • Combatant • combat mission • Condor Legion • Conflict escalation • Conflicts • Counterinsurgency • Counter-Insurgency • covert intervention • covert military intervention • covertness • covert operation • covert operations • cuban missile crisis • cyberconflict • Cyberwarfare • declaration of war • direct combat • direct communication • domestic opposition • drones • Eastern Bloc • escalation control • escalation dangers • escalation dynamics • escalation potential • escalation process • foreign combat participation • foreign policy • foreign wars • German intervention • Governments • government secrets • Great Power • Great War • Head Coach • Helen Milner • historian • inference • Insurgency • Intelligence agency • Intelligence Assessment • Interdiction • International Relations • International Security • Interwar Period • Invasion • Iranian covert intervention • Iraq occupation • John Mearsheimer • John Mueller • Korean War • Laos • large-scale conflict • limited war • limited-war dynamics • limited-war framework • limiting war • Literature • Lyndon Johnson • Marc Trachtenberg • Mass Mobilization • Materiel • military confrontation • military force • military intervention • Military Operation • Military personnel • miscommunication • modern war • National interest • national security • Nazi Germany • News • Non-Intervention Committee • non-state actor • North Korea • north vietnam • Nuclear warfare • nuclear weapon • Odd Arne Westad • official non-acknowledgement • Open secret • Operations security • plausible deniability • Police action • policy debate • Political Constraints • post-Cold War conflict • Precedent • Princeton University Press • Refusal • regime change • Richard Nixon • rival powers • Robert Jervis • russians • secrecy • security dilemma • security studies • Social Media • Soviet–Afghan War • Soviet Armed Forces • Soviet cross-border • Soviet Union • Spain • Spanish Civil War • state powers • State Secrecy • Stinger missile system • Strategic goal (military) • terrorism • The New York Times • Thomas C. Schelling • Thomas Schelling • Total War • Uncertainty • United States Department of State • United States Intelligence Community • U.S. aid program • U.S. military activity • Vietnam War • Violence • volunteer intervention • war • war effort • war escalation • warfare • Weapon • weapon of mass destruction • weaponry • weapons supply program • World War • World War I • World War II • Writing • Zhou Enlai
• ISBN-13: 9780691184241 / 9780691184241