Doves into Hawks
Talking about Saving Strangers to Build Public Support for War
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 7 May 2026
- ISBN 9780197832707
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages264 pages
- Size 234x157x18 mm
- Weight 345 g
- Language English 685
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Short description:
This book shows how US presidents use humanitarian justifications to garner broad public support for foreign military interventions. It also explores how humanitarian claims improve democracy because they create opportunities for the public to hold leaders accountable for their words and actions.
MoreLong description:
Going to war is dangerous, costly, and questionable in its effectiveness. Yet majorities of the US public consistently support military interventions--a phenomenon that has generally been attributed to the mobilizing power of threats to US security. In fact, to justify every US military intervention in the post-Cold War era, presidents have cited not just national security, but also protecting foreign civilians.
Doves into Hawks shows that protecting US interests is not enough to make war popular. Military interventions must also appear to have a humanitarian dimension. By emphasizing this dimension, presidents give traditional "doves" a reason to become temporary "hawks," creating a broad domestic coalition of support for military action. In turn, this coalition holds leaders accountable for achieving both humanitarian and security outcomes. Combining analysis of original data on presidential justifications for military force with survey experiments and archival research of the Gulf War and US action in Bosnia, Sarah Maxey reshapes our understanding of how, with the right words, leaders persuade skeptics to approve of military action and the unexpected ways this tactic can be good for democracy.
Table of Contents:
Humanitarian justifications in security crises
How leaders talk about potential interventions
Justification strategies for broad domestic coalitions
Demand for justifications: Who responds to humanitarian appeals?
Reasons for restraint: Broader coalitions create broader accountability
Building broad coalitions: White House communications in Iraq and Bosnia
What powerful humanitarian claims mean for democracy
Humanitarian justifications in security crises
How leaders talk about potential interventions
Justification strategies for broad domestic coalitions
Demand for justifications: Who responds to humanitarian appeals?
Reasons for restraint: Broader coalitions create broader accountability
Building broad coalitions: White House communications in Iraq and Bosnia
What powerful humanitarian claims mean for democracy
