The Scientific Study of Peace and War: A Text Reader

By John A. Vasquez

Book Overview

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).

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0739100726
• ISBN13: 9780739100721
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 8.8"

Customer Reviews

A different way to see war and peace

The book gives a different view of times of peace and war. Careful analysis of the data is done and trends from one war to the other are found. Findings like Democracies never fight each other help to better understand the world we live in. Not only that it helps us to understand how other wars can be prevented.

A Good Introduction to Scientific Study !

This book is very interesting. It is very comprehensive in its organization, especially for those who are interested in scientific study of peace and war. This book consists of several articles from many famous peace researchers, and the best part is both the editors put some comments, classified into findings and methodological description, even explanation of the articles presented. All in all, I would recommend this book for all students of IR who are interested in quantitative IR.