Presidential Saber Rattling - Causes and Consequences

Evaluates the causes and consequences of presidential threats toward other nations, revealing the nature of modern presidential foreign policy representation.

List of contents

1. Presidential saber rattling in the early American republic; 2. Presidential saber rattling and presidential representation; 3. Measuring presidential saber rattling; 4. The causes of presidential saber rattling; 5. The domestic consequences of presidential saber rattling; 6. The foreign policy consequences of presidential saber rattling; 7. The Bush war on terror and presidential foreign policy representation; 8. Wisdom, virtue, and presidential foreign policy representation.

About the author

B. Dan Wood is Professor and Director of the American Politics Program at Texas A&M University. He is the author of The Myth of Presidential Representation (Cambridge University Press, 2009), The Politics of Economic Leadership: The Causes and Consequences of Presidential Rhetoric (2007) and co-author of Bureaucratic Dynamics: The Role of Bureaucracy in a Democracy (1994).

Summary

Between 1945 and 2008, American presidents issued 4,269 threats to nineteen different countries. Professor B. Dan Wood evaluates the causes and consequences of these threats, revealing the nature of presidential foreign policy representation and its consistency with the founding fathers' intentions.

Product details

• Authors: B. Dan Wood, B. Dan (Texas a & M University) Wood, Wood B. Dan
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.03.2014
• EAN: 9781107661905
• ISBN: 978-1-107-66190-5
• No. of pages: 210
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, International Relations, Political leaders & leadership, United States of America, USA, Political leaders and leadership, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state