IMPERIALISM, INTERVENTION CAPACITY, AND FOREIGN POLICYMAKING: ON THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF US INTERVENTION IN INDOCHINA
In: Journal of peace research, Band 9, Heft 4, S. 285-302
ISSN: 0022-3433
THIS ARTICLE SUMMARIEZES CENTRAL THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL NOTIONS DEVELOPED IN AN EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS OF US FOREIGN POLICY DECISIONMAKING, OF THE ECONOMIC EFFECTS OF WAR EXPENDITURES AND OF THE EVOLUTION OF PUBLIC OPINION IN THE INDOCHINA INTERVENTION, FROM KENNEDY TO NIXON. THE AUTHORS ARGUE THAT CRITICAL SOCIAL SCIENCE NEED NOT NEGLECT MORE REFINED MEASURES OF DATA ANALYSIS AND CONCEPTUALIZATION