This study, by three scholars, explores the attitudes of US decision makers and opinion leaders toward war and offers a theoretical framework, based on empirical evidence, that suggests the ways people reach their positions on such issues. Their work rests on statistical procedures rather than the case studies and narratives that have predominated past research on the subject; and their hope is to encourage such research by others. Paper edition (5585-7), $19.95. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

Understanding Attitudes About War: Modeling Moral Judgements (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

History

Brunk, Gregory G.

Secrest, Donald

Tamashiro, Howard

Americas

Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Choice 1997 Outstanding Academic Book
 Why have some traditional cold warriors opposed involvement in Iraq and the former Yugoslavia, while many vocal critics of the Vietnam war supported the use of U.S. forces in Somalia, Haiti, and the Balkans? What do these debates tell us about American attitudes toward the use of military force to achieve foreign policy goals? The authors examine the ethical and moral underpinnings of U.S. international relations by exploring the attitudes of decision makers and foreign policy elites toward war. Their unique contribution is to bring together the various doctrines in the literature and to characterize them using behavioral methodologies, in an attempt to bring normative questions back into the mainstream of political science.

Understanding Attitudes About War: Modeling Moral Judgments (Pitt Series in Policy and Institutional Studies)

University of Pittsburgh Press

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