Why nations fight : past and future motives for war /

"Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Using an original dataset, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, only a minority of these w...

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Autor principal: Lebow, Richard Ned
Formato: Libro
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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245 1 0 |a Why nations fight :  |b past and future motives for war /  |c Richard Ned Lebow. 
260 |a Cambridge, UK ;  |a New York :  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c 2010. 
300 |a xii, 295 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 248-287) and index. 
505 0 |a Introduction -- Theories of war -- Theory and propositions -- Data set and findings -- Interest and security -- Standing and revenge -- Conclusion. 
520 |a "Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Using an original dataset, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, only a minority of these were motivated by security or material interest. Instead, the majority are the result of a quest for standing, and for revenge - an attempt to get even with states who had previously made successful territorial grabs"--Provided by publisher. 
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