Book: Causes Of War: Power And The Roots Of Conflict "What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? A prominent political scientist here addresses these questions, offering ideas that will be widely debated. Stephen Van Evera frames five conditions that increase the risk of interstate war: false optimism about the likely outcome of a war, a first-strike advantage, fluctuation in the relative power of states, circumstances that allow nations to parlay one conquest into another, and circumstances that make conquest easy.
Details of Book: Causes Of War: Power And The Roots Of Conflict Book: Causes Of War: Power And The Roots Of Conflict
Author: Stephen Van Evera
ISBN: 080148295X
ISBN-13: 9780801482953
, 978-0801482953
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Jun 2001
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Number of Pages: 288
Language: English