Foreign Military Intervention: The Dynamics of Protracted Conflict

by Ariel Levite, Bruce Jentleson, Larry Berman

Overview

Foreign Military Intervention brings together prominent scholars in an ambitious and innovative comparative study. The six case studies—the United States in Vietnam, the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, Syria in Lebanon, Israel in Lebanon, South Africa and Cuba in Angola, and India in Sri Lanka—constitute a diverse set, involving superpowers and regional powers, democracies and nondemocracies, neighboring states and distant states, and incumbent regimes and insurgent movements.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780231072953
Publisher:	Columbia University Press
Publication date:	07/14/1992
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

What People are Saying About This

Robert Jervis

The end of the Cold War is likely to increase the number and importance of foreign military interventions. This book greatly increases our knowledge about them. The essays are theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich.

— Robert Jervis, Columbia University

Peter Katzenstein

This theoretically sophisticated and wide-ranging book is intellectually very coherent and politically very timely.

— Peter Katzenstein, Cornell University

Editorial Reviews

The cases themselves, written by distinguished scholars, are rich, and their focused comparison in the method of Alexander George not only confirms some conventional conclusions-it's easier to go in than to get out-but also elucidates the complicated politics between intervener and client.

Foreign Affairs

This theoretically sophisticated and wide-ranging book is intellectually very coherent and politically very timely.

Peter Katzenstein

The end of the Cold War is likely to increase the number and importance of foreign military interventions. This book greatly increases our knowledge about them. The essays are theoretically sophisticated and empirically rich.

Robert Jervis