Why Leaders Lie The Truth about Lying in International Politics

Name: Why Leaders Lie The Truth about Lying in International Politics
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ISBN: 9780199975457

ISBN-10: 0199975450

ISBN-13: 9780199975457

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Authors: John J. Mearsheimer

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For more than two decades, John J. Mearsheimer has been regarded as one of the foremost realist thinkers on foreign policy. Clear and incisive as well as a fearlessly honest analyst, his coauthored 2007New York Timesbestseller,The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, aroused a firestorm with its unflinching look at the making of America's Middle East policy. Now he takes a look at another controversial but understudied aspect of international relations: lying.InWhy Leaders Lie,Mearsheimer provides the first systematic analysis of lying as a tool of statecraft, identifying the varieties, the reasons, and the potential costs and benefits. Drawing on a wealth of examples, he argues that…

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List price: $14.99
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/1/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 8.19" wide x 5.51" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.396

He is R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago & a regular contributor to The New Republic & The Atlantic.



Preface


Introduction



What is Lying?



The Inventory of International Lies



Lying between States



Fearmongering



Strategic Cover-ups



Nationalist Myths



Liberal Lies



The Downside of Telling International Lies



Conclusion


Notes


Index