Causes of War: Power and the Roots of Conflict

by Stephen Van Evera

Book Overview

What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? In this book, 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.

According to Van Evera, all but one of these conditions--false...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801432014
• ISBN13: 9780801432019
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.36 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher