Essays on interstate crises and audiences : a text analysis approach to US foreign relations
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Policymakers conduct foreign policy in the presence of domestic and international audiences―especially in the midst of interstate crises that may precipitate armed conflict (e.g., Fearon 1994, 1997; Schultz 1998, 2001; Smith 1998; Tomz 2007). This dissertation project aims to study the role of the audience in interstate crises by applying text analysis and machine learning techniques to vast bodies of newly digitized documents from the United States government. Quantitative time-series data generated in this project allowed for a substantially improved understanding of mechanisms explaining interstate behavior in the presence of domestic and international audiences. This dissertation project consists of three independent essays: 1) policymakers' credibility concerns and escalatory behavior in the Berlin Crisis; 2) the effectiveness of public and private diplomatic signals after Khrushchev's ultimatum in 1958; and 3) the determinants of de-escalation policy in the Vietnam War. These quantitative historical studies contribute to micro-foundational understandings of U.S. policymakers' perceptions and interstate behavior in crises and the actual influence domestic and international audiences have on foreign policy.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2016 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Katagiri, Azusa |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science. |
| Primary advisor | Schultz, Kenneth A |
| Thesis advisor | Schultz, Kenneth A |
| Thesis advisor | Fearon, James D |
| Thesis advisor | Grimmer, Justin |
| Thesis advisor | Sagan, Scott Douglas |
| Advisor | Fearon, James D |
| Advisor | Grimmer, Justin |
| Advisor | Sagan, Scott Douglas |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Azusa Katagiri. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2016. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2016 by Azusa Katagiri
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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