Reputation for Resolve

L. Lupton Danielle

Description

How do reputations form in international politics? What influence do these reputations have on the conduct of international affairs? In Reputation for Resolve, Danielle L. Lupton takes a new approach to answering these enduring and hotly debated questions by shifting the focus away from the reputations of countries and instead examining the reputations of individual leaders.Lupton argues that new leaders establish personal reputations for resolve that are separate from the reputations of their predecessors and from the reputations of their states. Using innovative survey experiments and in-depth archival research, she finds that leaders acquire personal reputations for resolve based on their foreign policy statements and behavior. Reputation for Resolve shows that statements create expectations of how leaders will react to foreign policy crises in the future and that leaders who fail to meet expectations of resolute action face harsh reputational consequences.Reputation for Resolve challenges the view that reputations do not matter in international politics. In sharp contrast, Lupton shows that the reputations for resolve of individual leaders influence the strategies statesmen pursue during diplomatic interactions and crises, and she delineates specific steps policymakers can take to avoid developing reputations for irresolute action. Lupton demonstrates that reputations for resolve do exist and can influence the conduct of international security. Thus, Reputation for Resolve reframes our understanding of the influence of leaders and their rhetoric on crisis bargaining and the role reputations play in international politics.

Sujets

• USA
• United States of America
• International relations
• États-Unis

Informations

• Publié par: Cornell University Press
• Date de parution: 15 avril 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781501747731
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

Extrait

Reputatîon for Resove

a volum e in th e series

Cornell Studies in Security Affairs

Edited by Robert J. Art, Robert Jervis, and Stephen M. Walt

A list of titles in this series is available at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

Reputatîon for Resove

How Leaders Signal Determination in International Politics

Da n i e l l e L . L u p t o n

Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

Cornell University Press gratefully acknowledges receipt of a grant

from the Colgate University Faculty Research Council, which aided

in bringing this book to publication.

Copyright © 2020 by Cornell University

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First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Names: Lupton, Danielle L., 1987– author. Title: Reputation for resolve : how leaders signal determination in  international politics / Danielle L. Lupton. Description: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020. | Series: Cornell  studies in security affairs | Includes bibliographical references and  index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019020875 (print) | LCCN 2019981418 (ebook) |  ISBN 9781501747717 (cloth) | ISBN 9781501747731 (pdf) |  ISBN 9781501747724 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: World politics—19551965. | Political leadership. |  Reputation—Political aspects. | Determination (Personality trait)  —Political aspects. Classification: LCC D843 .L855 2020 (print) | LCC D843 (ebook) |  DDC 327.1—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019020875 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019981418

Jacket photographs: Eisenhower photograph by Marion S. Trikosko.

Dwight D. Eisenhower during a news conference at the White House,

Washington, DC, October 9, 1957. https://www.loc.gov/

item/2012646646/. Kennedy photograph from NASA. John F.

Kennedy delivers a message to a joint session of the US Congress,

May 25, 1961. Khrushchev photograph by Warren K. Leffler. Nikita

Khrushchev at a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly,

New York, NY, September 22, 1960. LCUSZ62134149.

To Cosmin, Ann, Chris, and Bear

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

 Introduction:Why Leaders and Their Reputations for Resolve Matter 1. Leaders Establish Reputations for Resolve How 2.  How LeaderSpecific Reputations Form and Change across Repeated Interactions 3. Contextual Factors Influence LeaderSpecific How Reputations 4.  A Reputation for Resolute Action:Eisenhower and Berlin 5. Reputation for Irresolute Action: A Kennedy, Berlin, and Cuba  Conclusion:Lessons in LeaderSpecific Reputations for Resolve

Appendix A: Methods Appendix B: Results Notes Bibliography Index

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2.1. Single leader survey experiment design 2.2. The effect of contextual information treatments on perceptions of resolve 2.3. The effect of leader information and contextual information treatments on perceptions of resolve 2.4. The interaction of leader statements and behavior 2.5. Additional influences on perceptions of resolve 3.1. Leader turnover survey experiment design 3.2. The effect of treatments on perceptions of resolve

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