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How democracies lose small wars : state, society, and the failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam
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- Creator
- Gil Merom
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003
- Physical Details
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- xiii, 295 pages ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780521804035, 0521804035, 9780521008778, 0521008778
- OCLC
- ocm51274584
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-276) and index.
- Introduction -- Military superiority and victory in small wars: historical observations -- The structural origins of defiance: the middle-class, the marketplace of ideas, and the normative gap -- The structural origins of tenacity: national alignment and compartmentalization -- The French war in Algeria: a strategic, political, and economic overview -- French instrumental dependence and its consequences -- The development of a normative difference in France, and its consequences -- The French struggle to contain the growth of the normative gap and the rise of the "Democratic Agenda" -- Political relevance and its consequences in France -- The Israeli War in Lebanon: a strategic, political, and economic overview -- Israeli instrumental dependence and its consequences -- The development of a normative difference in Israel, and its consequences -- The Israeli struggle to contain the growth of the normative gap and the rise of the "democratic agenda" -- Political relevance and its consequences in Israel -- Conclusion