Contagion and War - Lessons From the First World War

Explains how war spreads through an original analysis of the contagion that brought countries into the First World War.

List of contents

Part I. Theoretical Expectations: 1. Contagion processes in the First World War; 2. Research design; Part II. Dyadic Case Analyses: History and Data: 3. 1914: the local war and the first wave; 4. 1915-16: the second wave; 5. 1917: the third wave; Part III. Conclusions: Lessons from the First World War: 6. The neutrals; 7. How contagion actually worked.

About the author

John A. Vasquez is the Thomas B. Mackie Scholar in International Relations at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is author of eight books including, The War Puzzle (Cambridge, 1993), and The Power of Power Politics (Cambridge, 1999) and editor of ten others, including The Outbreak of the First World War, with Jack S. Levy (Cambridge, 2014). He has published over forty-five articles in major journals in political science and international relations. In 2017, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award of the Conflict Processes section of the American Political Science Association.

Summary

Vasquez explains the processes that cause the spread of interstate war by looking at how contagion brought countries into the First World War. The book will interest students and scholars of international relations, conflict studies and international history, especially those interested in the spread of conflict, or the First World War.

Product details

• Authors: John A. Vasquez, John A. (University of Illinois Vasquez, John A. (Vanderbilt University Vasquez
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2018
• EAN: 9781108417044
• ISBN: 978-1-108-41704-4
• No. of pages: 412
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