Crisis diplomacy : the great powers since the mid-nineteenth century
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Crisis diplomacy : the great powers since the mid-nineteenth century
(Cambridge studies in international relations, 35)
Cambridge University Press, 1994
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- : paperback
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 412-418
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Although much has been written on international crises, the literature suffers from a lack of historical depth, and a proliferation of competing theoretical frameworks. Through case studies drawing on the rich historical experience of crisis diplomacy, James Richardson offers an integrated analysis based on a critical assessment of the main theoretical approaches. Due weight is given to systemic and structural factors, but also to the specific historical factors of each case, and to theories which do not presuppose rationality as well as those which do. Crisis diplomacy the major political choices made by decision makers, and their strategies, judgments and misjudgments - is found to play a crucial role in each of the case studies. This broad historical inquiry is especially timely when the ending of the Cold War has removed the settled parameters within which the superpowers conducted their crisis diplomacy.
Table of Contents
- Part I: 1. Introduction: aims and approaches
- 2. Theories of crisis behaviour
- 3. 'Crisis management' versus 'crisis diplomacy'
- Part II: 4. The Eastern crisis, 1839-1841
- 5. The Crimean war crisis, 1853-1854
- 6. The Russo-Japanese crisis, 1903-1904
- 7. The Sudeten crisis, 1938
- 8. The Franco-Prussian and Agadir crises
- 9. Pearl Harbor and the Berlin crises
- Part III: 10. Crises and the international system: arenas, alignments and norms
- 11. The choice of goals: values, interests and objectives
- 12. Selective perception and misperception
- 13. Crisis bargaining
- 14. Internal politics
- 15. The outcome and risk of war
- Part IV: 16. Conclusions: theory and policy.
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