What Do We Know about War?
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What Do We Know about War?

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What Do We Know about War?

About this book

This invaluable text assesses the current research on the causes of both war and peace. In this revised third edition-now with a brand new chapter on the Russian-Ukraine War-leading international relations scholars explore the role of territorial disputes, power, alliances, arms races, rivalry, and nuclear weapons in bringing about war; the outcomes and consequences of war; and the factors that promote peace, including democracy, norms, capitalist economies, and stable borders. The revised third edition includes a section on emerging trends in research on cyber war, the environment and climate change, leaders, war financing, and trends in interstate conflict. Reviewing fifty years of scientific research, the contributors provide an accessible and up-to-date overview of current knowledge and a road map for future research.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface to the Revised Third Edition
  2. Preface to the Third Edition
  3. Introduction
  4. PART I: FACTORS THAT BRING ABOUT WAR
  5. 1 Territory and Contentious Issues
  6. 2 Dyadic Power Distributions and War
  7. 3 Deterrence Theory and Alliance Politics
  8. 4 Arms Races
  9. 5 Rivalries and Crisis Bargaining
  10. 6 Nuclear Weapons
  11. 7 Outcomes and Consequences of War
  12. PART II: FACTORS THAT PROMOTE PEACE
  13. 8 The Liberal Peace
  14. 9 The Territorial Peace: Current and Future Research
  15. 10 The Peace Puzzle: Understanding Transitions to Peace
  16. 11 Conflict Management of Territorial and Maritime Disputes
  17. PART III: EMERGING TRENDS IN INTERSTATE WAR RESEARCH
  18. 12 Cyber War
  19. 13 The Environment and Conflict: Water Wars
  20. 14 Leaders and War
  21. 15 War Financing and Foreign Debt
  22. 16 Trends in Interstate Conflict
  23. PART IV: CONCLUSION
  24. 17 Some Brief Observations on the Contemporary Study of War
  25. 18 War and the Orient Express
  26. 19 What Do We Know about War?
  27. 20 Afterword: The Russia-Ukraine War—What Can Quantitative Conflict Research Tell Us?
  28. References
  29. About the Contributors