War Puzzle Revisited

Informationen zum Autor John A. Vasquez is Thomas B. Mackie Scholar in International Relations at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Klappentext A scientific explanation of the onset and expansion of war and the conditions of peace. Zusammenfassung John Vasquez's The War Puzzle provided one of the most important scientific analyses of the causes of war. The War Puzzle Revisited updates and extends his groundbreaking work! constructing a scientific explanation of the onset and expansion of war and the conditions of peace. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Part I. Preliminaries: Introduction; 1. Conceptualizing war; 2. Types of war; 3. Power politics and war; Retrospective commentary on Part I; Part II. The Onset and Expansion of Wars of Rivalry: 4. Territorial contiguity as a source of conflict leading to war; 5. The realist road to war; 6. The domestic prerequisites of wars of rivalry; 7. Explaining World War: its scope, severity and duration; 8. Peace; 9. Conclusion: solving the puzzle of war; Retrospective commentary on Part II; Part III. Findings on the Steps to War, 1994-2008: 10. Research findings on territory, war and peace; 11. Research findings on power politics and war; Appendix I. Propositional summary; Appendix II. Major findings on the steps to war.

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• Authors: John Vasquez, John A. Vasquez, John A. (University of Illinois Vasquez
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.07.2009
• EAN: 9780521881791
• ISBN: 978-0-521-88179-1
• No. of pages: 500
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Internati
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education