Condemned to Repetition?: The Rise, Fall, and Reprise of Soviet-Russian Military Interventionism, 1973-1996.(Review) (book review)

By Andrew Bennett. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999. 387p. $35.00 cloth, $17.50 paper.

In this rich, dense book Andrew Bennett develops learning theory (LT) and

uses it to explain Soviet and Russian military interventions from 1973 to 1996. In advancing LT, Bennett joins other scholars who emphasize ideational rather than material factors in foreign policy (e.g., Jack Levy, "Learning and Foreign Policy: Sweeping a Conceptual Minefield," International Organization 48 [Spring 1994]: 279-312). Indeed, the ideational concept "military interventionalism" (defined as ...