[PDF.70dk] Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict (Cornell Studies in Security Affairs)

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 | #850784 in Books |  Cornell University Press |  1999-07-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .95 x6.57 x9.60l,1.31 | File type: PDF | 270 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Controversial|By doug korty|This is a well known work and controversial as the reviews here show. Some people think it is important and well argued, others disagree. It is too bad there is no bibliography. This is an important subject. The book was written in 1999 and based on material written before that so it is probably outdated by now.

Midwest Independent Researc| || "Van Evera's book is a masterful work of positivist social science . . . He offers convincing evidence to show that offense-defense theory is a major explanation for the onset of modern wars."―Choice

| "An important book on the roots

What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? In this book, Stephen Van Evera frames five conditions that increase the risk of interstate war: false optimism about the likely outcome of a war, a first-strike advantage, fluctuation in the relative power of states, circumstances that allow nations to parlay one conquest into another, and circumstances that make conquest easy.

According to Van Evera, all but one of these conditions―false optimism...

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