Secret Wars: Covert Conflict in International Politics

by Austin Carson

Book Overview

Secret Wars is the first book to systematically analyze the ways powerful states covertly participate in foreign wars, showing a recurring pattern of such behavior stretching from World War I to U.S.-occupied Iraq. Investigating what governments keep secret during wars and why, Austin Carson argues that leaders maintain the secrecy of state involvement as a response to the persistent concern of limiting war. Keeping interventions "backstage"...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691204128
• ISBN13: 9780691204123
• Release Date: June 2020
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"