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Why Leaders Lie : The Truth about Lying in International Politics

ISBN: 9780199758739 | 0199758735
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Pub. Date: 1/7/2011

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
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 2007 New York Times bestseller, 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. In Why Leaders Lie, Mearsheimer provides the first systematic analysis of lying ... MORE
Prefacep. VII
Introductionp. 3
What is Lying?p. 15
The Inventory of International Liesp. 21
Lying between Statesp. 25
Fearmongeringp. 45
Strategic Cover-upsp. 63
Nationalist Mythsp. 71
Liberal Liesp. 77
The Downside of Telling International Liesp. 83
Conclusionp. 99... MORE
Notesp. 103
Indexp. 133
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John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science and the co-director of the Program on International Security Policy at the University of Chicago. His books include The Tragedy of Great Power Politics, which won the Joseph Lepgold Book Prize, and New York Times bestseller The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy, which has been translated into seventeen languages.

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