Political Science Quarterly: Fall 1981: Casual Commitment in International Relations

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Volume 96 - Number 3 - Fall 1981

pp. 367-379

Casual Commitment in International Relations
Inis L. Claude, Jr., discusses the tendency of American officials to undertake international obligations "casually," without calculating the possible cost of meeting those obligations and resolving to pay that cost if the occasion should arise.

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