Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition

Jack L. Snyder

Published by Cornell University Press 2013

Myths of Empire

Domestic Politics and International Ambition

Jack L. Snyder

In the series Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

https://doi.org/10.7591/9780801468605

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About this book

Overextension is the common pitfall of empires. Jack Snyder identifies recurrent myths of empire, describes the varieties of overextension to which they lead, and criticizes the traditional explanations offered by historians and political scientists.

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Jack L. Snyder is Robert and Ren'e Belfer Professor of International Relations, Columbia University, and author of The Ideology of the Offensive, also from Cornell, and From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict.

Reviews

Michael Doyle, author of Empires:

A superb analysis of one of the most dangerous ills that can beset the foreign policy of a great power. Political scientists will benefit from Snyder's mastery of history and the challenging case he makes for the significance of the politics of domestic coalitions as the root of overextension.

In support of his case, Snyder draws upon recent research into the determinant of foreign policy of the leading powers since the mid-19th century.... Historians and still more international relations specialists will find much of interest in this analysis.

Myths of Empire offers the best-developed theory to date of the domestic sources of international conflict and security policy.... Snyder has taken a major step toward ending the theoretical impoverishment of the study of the domestic sources of international conflict.

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Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
1. The Myth Of Security Through Expansion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Three Theories Of Overexpansion Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
3. Germany And The Pattern Of Late Development Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
4. Japan's Bid For Autarky Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	112
5. Social Imperialism In Victorian Britain Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	153
6. Soviet Politics And Strategic Learning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
7. America's Cold War Consensus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
8. Overexpansion: Origins And Antidotes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305
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