What if They Gave a Crisis and Nobody Came? Interpreting International Crises

by Ron Hirschbein

If wars are too important to be left to the generals, crises are too dangerous to be left exclusively to the social scientists. Humanistic inquiry has not realized its potential for illuminating these wars of words. Crises occur in a realm foreign to prevailing approaches, but familiar to interpretive approaches to politics. Decision-makers are no longer observers of unmistakable threats: they are interpreters of cryptic texts and symbolic performances...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0275960439
• ISBN13: 9780275960438
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.5"