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Doves Into Hawks: Talking about Saving Strangers to Build Public Support for War

by Sarah Maxey
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Book cover type: Hardcover
  • ISBN13: 9780197832691
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Oxford University Press
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  • Pages: 264
  • Original Price: GBP 91.0
  • Language: English
  • Edition: N/A
  • Item Weight: 540 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Public Policy / Communication Policy

Going to war is dangerous, costly, and questionable in its effectiveness. Yet majorities of the US public consistently support military interventions--a phenomenon that has generally been attributed to the mobilizing power of threats to US security. In fact, to justify every US military intervention in the post-Cold War era, presidents have cited not just national security, but also protecting foreign civilians.

Doves into Hawks shows that protecting US interests is not enough to make war popular. Military interventions must also appear to have a humanitarian dimension. By emphasizing this dimension, presidents give traditional "doves" a reason to become temporary "hawks," creating a broad domestic coalition of support for military action. In turn, this coalition holds leaders accountable for achieving both humanitarian and security outcomes. Combining analysis of original data on presidential justifications for military force with survey experiments and archival research of the Gulf War and US action in Bosnia, Sarah Maxey reshapes our understanding of how, with the right words, leaders persuade skeptics to approve of military action and the unexpected ways this tactic can be good for democracy.

Sarah Maxey is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Loyola University Chicago. Her research and teaching focus on foreign policy, public opinion, and the domestic politics of international security. Her work has been supported by the National Science Foundation and published in the Journal of Politics, International Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Political Research Quarterly, among other outlets. She holds a PhD in government from Cornell University and was formerly a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Pennsylvania's Perry World House.

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