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Can foreign invaders successfully exploit industrial economies? Since control over economic resources is a key source of power, the answer affects the likelihood of aggression and how strenuously states should counter it. The resurgence of nationalism has led many policymakers and scholars to doubt that conquest still pays. But, until…
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There is a widely held belief that modern educated populations of industrial countries are the most morally assertive societies. Consequently, unlike less democratic peoples, it is the conventional wisdom that these societies would be the least likely to acquiesce to being occupied by a foreign military.
Narratives of resistance and revolution pervade the popular media. Peter Liberman, in his book Does Conquest Pay?, refutes these incorrect sociological understandings of contemporary democracies, and in fact shows how easy it is in fact to occupy urban populations.
Despite the obvious humiliation and agony of contemplating being occupied by a foreign power, Liberman’s…
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