Description

This widely used and acclaimed text reader brings together some of the best work on the onset of war, the expansion of war, the conditions of peace, and the termination and impact of war. Editorial commentary on the major findings and the statistical analysis used in each study teaches students how to read the article so that they can become literate in social science methods. A learning package in the appendix provides a programmed text to teach students how to interpret tables, read basic statistics, and conduct elementary data analysis. Correlates of War data on European countries is provided, and a methodological table of contents allows instructors to assign articles from the easiest (simple percentages) to the most advanced (time series and formal modeling).

Table of Contents

chapter 1 Facets in the Onset of War:Alliance Formation and War Behavior
chapter 2 Capability Distribution, Uncertainty, and Major Power War, 1820-1965
chapter 3 Armaments and Escalation
chapter 4 Arms Races and Escalation
chapter 5 When Will They Ever Learn? Coercive Bargaining in Recurrent Crises
chapter 6 Excerpts from The War Trap
chapter 7 The Expansion of War:Alliances and the Expansion of War
chapter 8 Bipolarity and War
chapter 9 Preventing Systemic War
chapter 10 Peace and the Global Institutional Context:
Universalism vs. Particularism
chapter 11 The Termination and Impact of War:War Power and the Willingness to Suffer
chapter 12 The Costs of Major Wars
chapter 13 War Making and State Making
chapter 14 Conclusion:
The Steps to War
chapter 15 Appendix: Applying Scientific Method to the Study of War:The Scientific Study of War
chapter 16 Bibliographical Essay
chapter 17 References
chapter 18 Index

Product details

Published Mar 28 1999
Format Paperback
Edition 1st
Extent 512
ISBN 9780739100721
Imprint Lexington Books
Dimensions 234 x 160 mm
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing

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Environment: Staging