Tir's book makes an original and lasting contribution to study of international conflict. It provides an insightful empirically grounded study of the role of territorial changes in both conflict and peace. It is a book that every scholar, policy maker, and student interested in global conflict and peace will benefit from reading.

John A. Vasquez, Mackie Scholar in International Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

This book is a great step forward in the study of international conflict processes. A unified model linking territorial changes and future militarized conflict is developed and tested. The findings have implications for many areas of research, most notably, territorial conflict, ethnic conflict and temporal conflict diffusion. The book is a 'must read' for scholars with general interests in the international relations as well as specialists on conflict.

Patrick James, University of Southern California

Careless scholarly speculation and partisan rhetoric have long advocated changing territorial boundaries to solve conflicts. In this path- breaking work, Tir provides systematic, empirical evidence about such claims and discovers that reality is nowhere near as simple as those prescriptions suggest.

Paul F. Diehl, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign