The Influence of Public Opinion on Post-Cold War U.S. Military Interventions

by Helene Dieck and Richard J Finneran

Is the American president free to wage a war? What is his leeway with respect to public opinion? The book explores these and other essential questions in understanding post-Cold War and post-9/11 conflicts: interventions characterized by their long duration in distant countries with unclear strategic interests. If public opinion often initially tolerates the President embarking on a military intervention, that support is difficult to maintain in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137519223
• ISBN13: 9781137519221
• Release Date: July 2015
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"