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Britain's ‘Vietnam syndrome’? Public opinion and British military intervention from Palestine to Yugoslavia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2000

PAUL DIXON
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Abstract

There have been calls for policymakers to draw ‘lessons’ from Britain's experience of Empire and Northern Ireland to inform a new generation of post-Cold War interventions by the international community. This article emphasises the role that domestic public opinion, galvanized by the impact of casualties and the plight of military relatives, has played in shaping Britain's experience of ‘military intervention’ in the ‘civil wars’ of Palestine, Northern Ireland and the former Yugoslavia. Three principal arguments are put forward.

Type
Research Article
Information
Review of International Studies , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , January 2000 , pp. 99 - 121
Copyright
© 2000 British International Studies Association

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Footnotes

This title should not to be taken to suggest that the aversion of public opinion to the costs of military intervention, over Vietnam or anywhere else, is an illegitimate one.