{"product_id":"how-democracies-lose-small-wars-state-society-and-the-failures-of-france-in-algeria-israel-in-lebanon-and-the-united-states-in-vietnam-hardback-9780521804035","title":"How Democracies Lose Small Wars; State, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam (Hardback) 9780521804035","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eHow Democracies Lose Small Wars\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eState, Society, and the Failures of France in Algeria, Israel in Lebanon, and the United States in Vietnam\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis 2003 book examines how modern democracies fail in insurgency wars because they are unable to find a winning balance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eGil Merom (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521804035, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 4 August 2003\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e310 pages, 2 b\/w illus.  16 tables\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.1 cm, 0.63 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Merom's argument is highly timely and his theoretical framework is more developed (both formally and with historical evidence) than that of others who have made a similar argument.' Journal of Peace Research\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIn this 2003 book, Gil Merom argues that modern democracies fail in insurgency wars because they are unable to find a winning balance between expedient and moral tolerance to the costs of war. Small wars, he argues, are lost at home when a critical minority mass shifts the center of gravity from the battlefield to the market place of ideas. Merom analyzes the role of brutality in counterinsurgency, the historical foundations of moral and expedient opposition to war, and the actions states traditionally took in order to preserve foreign policy autonomy. He then discusses the elements of the process that led to the failure of France in Algeria and Israel in Lebanon. In the conclusion, Merom considers the Vietnam War and the influence failed small wars had on Western war-making and military intervention.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction\u003cbr\u003e 2. Military superiority and victory in small wars: historical observations\u003cbr\u003e 3. The structural original of defiance: the middle-class, the marketplace of ideas, and the normative gap\u003cbr\u003e 4. The structural origins of tenacity: national alignment and compartmentalization\u003cbr\u003e 5. The French war in Algeria: a strategic, political, and economic overview\u003cbr\u003e 6. French instrumental dependence and its consequences\u003cbr\u003e 7. The development of a normative difference in France and its consequences\u003cbr\u003e 8. The French struggle to contain the growth of the normative gap and the rise of the 'democratic agenda'\u003cbr\u003e 9. Political relevance and its consequences in France\u003cbr\u003e 10. The Israeli war in Lebanon: a strategic, political, and economic overview\u003cbr\u003e 11. Israeli instrumental dependence and its consequences\u003cbr\u003e 12. The development of a normative difference in Israel and its consequences\u003cbr\u003e 13. The Israeli struggle to contain the growth of the normative gap and the rise of the 'democratic agenda'\u003cbr\u003e 14. 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