Examines empire networks throughout history and in the present day, arguing that key issues within the new world order may enable significant social transformation and global democracy.
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The question of what causes war has concerned statesmen since the time of Thucydides. The Steps to War utilizes new data on militarized interstate disputes from 1816 to 2001 to identify the factors that increase the probability that a crisis will escalate to war. In this book, P…
Ending civil wars
by King, Charles, International Institute for Strategic Studies
fromAdelphi papers
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Type: Book
"International observers frequently attribute the vicious and prolonged nature of civil wars to the irrational beliefs of the combatants or the irreconcilable goals at the base of the conflict. A visceral devotion to kith and kin and the indivisibility of resources and territory…
"Another Century of War? is a candid and critical look at America's "new wars" by a brilliant and provocative analyst of its old ones. Gabriel Kolko's masterly studies of conflict have redefined our views of modern warfare and its effects; in this urgent and timely treatise, he …
This text considers the dilemmas that arise in bringing peace and democracy to countries divided by civil war.
"How does a state determine if another state is an important military or economic threat? The issue of threat perception drives a wide variety of behaviors, from alliance formation and defense spending to trade relations and regime membership. Although liberal theorists and real…
"The study of international relations has suffered from an oversupply of theories and a lack of comprehensive, comparative tests between them. In The Behavioral Origins of War, Bennett and Stam draw from the systemic, dyadic, and monadic levels of analysis to evaluate the relati…
"To promote democracy, the United States has provided economic assistance, political support, and technical advice to emerging democracies in Eastern and Central Europe, and it has attempted to remove undemocratic regimes through political pressure, economic sanctions, and milit…
"What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? A prominent political scientist here addresses these questions, offering ideas that will be widely debated."--BOOK JACKET. "Van Evera's book demonstrates that ideas from the Realist paradigm can offer strong explana…
