Crisis and War

Author： James   Patrick  

Publisher： McGill-Queen's University Press‎

Publication year： 1988

E-ISBN: 9780773561212

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780773505742

Subject： D068 War and peace theory

Keyword： 中国军事

Language： ENG

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Using an analysis of patterns of international crisis and war from 1948 to 1975, Patrick James suggests why some international crises result in war while others do not. Over one hundred cases are used to assess the three most prominent explanations for crisis escalation to war: (1) war is the result of rational choice by leaders who expect to gain from it; (2) war is the product of the outward projection of political unrest within states; and (3) war is the result of classical balance of power politics. James concludes that the best explanations for war include elements from all three categories.

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Contents

Tables and Figures

Preface

1 International War and its Causes

2 War and Expected Utility Reconsidered

3 Expected Utility, Crisis, and War

4 Conflict and Cohesion: The Blind Men Meet the Elephant

5 Testing Externalization

6 Balance of Power Theory: The Search for Meaning

7 Weighing the Balance

8 Some Residual Analysis and Conclusions

Appendix: Sources of Data

Notes

Bibliography

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