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Politicians unfounded fear of military losses | Dieuwertje Kuijpers | TEDxKMA

4,441 views · Published 8 April 2016 · 13:11 · Indexed 21 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2016 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Politicians want to avoid negative consequences of their policy. For example, fatal casualties during a military mission is politically unacceptable, because you lose votes. Is this justified? Is the electoral wrath of citizens really that harsh?

Dieuwertje Kuijpers studied European Union Studies (MA ) and Italian Language and Culture (BA ) at the University of Leiden. For one year she studied Philosophy and Medieval Studies at the University of Udine in northern Italy. Her MA thesis was about the effectiveness of military operations in an international context and used the Balkan wars as a blueprint for a comparative study of the NATO and the EU. As a PhD candidate for High Risk Politics project will focus on why some governments electorally seen take risky decisions by the military to intervene and others do not.

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