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BLOMDAHL, MIKAEL (4) answer(s).
 
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Bureaucratic roles and positions: explaining the United States Libya decision / Blomdahl, Mikael   Journal Article
Blomdahl, Mikael Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This analysis examines the decision-making process of the Barack Obama Administration that led to the American decision in March 2011 to intervene in Libya. Its focus is whether the bureaucratic politics model of foreign policy decision-making can accurately explain the situation. In this case, finding mixed empirical support for the explanatory power of bureaucratic politics, it contributes to the further development of the model for foreign policy decision-making.
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ID:   168887


Changing the Conversation in Washington? An Illustrative Case Study of President Trump’s Air Strikes on Syria, 2017 / Blomdahl, Mikael   Journal Article
Blomdahl, Mikael Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This analysis uses case study methodology to further the understanding of the diversionary theory of war in specific cases. It employs a model consisting of five propositions that build upon existing qualitative research on diversionary war theory. The synthesised framework examines one possible case of American diversionary military actions: President Donald Trump´s decision to launch missile strikes against Syrian airfields on 7 April 2017. The study tests the descriptive accuracy and further develops the diversionary theory of war, in essence, generally suggesting that empirical support for the diversionary logic in this case is mixed.
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ID:   153628


Diversionary theory of war and the case study design : president Clinton’s strikes on iraq and Yugoslavia / Blomdahl, Mikael   Journal Article
Blomdahl, Mikael Journal Article
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Summary/Abstract This article examines President Clinton’s decisions to launch military actions against Iraq in June 1993 and Kosovo in 1999. This study represents an attempt to test the descriptive accuracy and further developing the diversionary theory of war. Using a qualitative framework for diversionary use of force developed by another researcher, Ryan C. Hendrickson, this research examines and compares the two cases in order to determine whether or not these strikes appear to be diversionary in nature. This article generally suggests that empirical support for the diversionary argument in these cases is “mixed” but has more validity in the actions against Iraq. Two proposals to further develop qualitative tests for diversionary use of force are advanced.
Key Words Iraq  ;  Diversionary War  ;  Congress  ;  Case Studies  ;  The United States 
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president Clinton's decision to launch operation bushwacker against iraq in 1993: national security considerations or diversionary tactics? / Blomdahl, Mikael   Article
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Summary/Abstract An examination of President Clinton's decision to launch military actions against Iraq in June 1993 is largely absent in professional defense literature. This article represents an attempt to test the descriptive accuracy and further develop the diversionary theory of war. The analysis employs a qualitative framework for diversionary use of force developed by another researcher, Ryan C. Hendrickson. This article finds that empirical support for the diversionary argument in this case is mixed. Two proposals to further develop qualitative tests for diversionary use of force are advanced.
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