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This chapter aims to evaluate how closely Chamberlain’s leadership approximates the expectations of the null hypothesis about how a leader informed by the logic that states balance against capability and malevolent intention would choose to secure Britain. First, however, and as was done with Baldwin, the historical data presented in the previous chapter will be evaluated to see if it lends confirmation to either of the prevailing structural theories: buck-passing and distancing.
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Notes
Barry Posen, The Sources of Military Doctrine (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1984), 158.
Robert C. Self, The Neville Chamberlain Diary Letters: Vol. 4 (London: Ashgate, 2005), 141.
Thomas Jones, A Diary with Letters: 1931–1950 (London: Oxford University Press, 1954), 125.
Quoted in RAC Parker, Chamberlain and Appeasement: British Policy and the Coming of the Second World War (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1993), 162.
Robert Jevis, The Meaning of the Nuclear Revolution: Statecraft and the Prospect of Armageddon (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990), Chapter 2.
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Roth, A.I. (2010). Leadership Evaluated. In: Leadership in International Relations. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230113534_7
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