The main puzzle that leads me to conceive this project is the seemingly
irrational behavior of certain leaders like Slobodan Milosevic and Saddam
Hussein during crises with the US. Why did they risk war with the United
States, while the odds are clearly against them? Why do they sometimes escalate
the crisis to the point of war and sometimes seek conciliation and settlement?
Thefore the central question of this study is: what are the dynamics
behind the foreign policy behavior of renegade regimes/rogue states during
crises? The cases include crises with Iraq (1991), Serbia (1999), and...