Cycles Of Violence

by Kuperman, Ranan D.

• ISBN13: 9780739109595
• ISBN10: 0739109596
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-08-30
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Cycles of Violence provides a theoretical and empirical analysis of how norms, rules, and procedures of decision-making cohere into a decision regime. Ranan D. Kuperman balances careful theoretical discussion with a case study, to track the evolution of a decision regime over time. Focusing on the regime governing Israeli use of limited military force and using quantitative historical analysis as well as qualitative historical surveys, Kuperman uses previously unpublished documents from the 1950s and 1960s to generate a new interpretation of historical events.

Author Biography

Ranan D. Kuperman is a lecturer in political science at the University of Haifa, Israel

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Introduction	ix
1 Foreign Policy Decision Making and Decision Regimes	1	(20)
2 A Survey of Alternative Decision Regimes Governing the use of Military Force	21	(24)
3 A General Model of Decision Regime Dynamics	45	(15)
4 Research Methods	60	(11)
5 A Qualitative Descriptive Analysis of the Decision Regime Governing Israeli Military Operations	71	(54)
6 A Quantitative History of the Rules Governing Israeli Military Operations	125	(23)
7 A Comparative Analysis of the Decision-Making Process	148	(19)
Conclusion	167	(12)
Appendix I: Coding of Dataset Used for Quantitative Historical Analysis	179	(10)
Appendix II: Summary of Cases Analyzed in Comparative Decision Analysis	189	(8)
Appendix III: Coding of Dataset Used for Comparative Decision Analysis	197	(10)
References	207	(20)
Index	227	(4)
About the Author	231