Democratic Participation in Armed Conflict : Military Involvement in Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq
ISBN: 9781137386519
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / Palgrave Macmillan UK
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Subjects: Military Science; Political Science;

Under which conditions do democracies participate in war, and when do they abstain? Providing a unique theoretical framework, Mello identifies pathways of war involvement and abstention across thirty democracies, investigating the wars in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq.


Patrick A. Mello is a Research Associate and Lecturer at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. His research interests include international relations theory and the influence of domestic politics on foreign policy as well as comparative and case study research methods. He has written articles for the European Journal of International Relations and the Journal of International Relations and Development.

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