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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lebow, Richard Ned
Format: Printed Book
Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
War-Causes.
Online Access:http://books.google.co.in/books?id=89VPr0EZH30C&printsec=frontcover&dq=Why+nations+fight&hl=en&sa=X&ei=w_vpUrDaFMTnrAfWxYDQAQ&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=Why%20nations%20fight&f=false
Table of Contents:
  • Theories of war
  • Theory and propositions
  • Data set and findings
  • Interest and security
  • Standing and revenge.

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