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ISBN: | 0511005717 9780511005718 0521366739 0521366747 0511583486 9780511583483 9780521366731 9780521366748
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Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 347-367) and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | This book constructs a new scientific explanation of the onset and expansion of war and the conditions of peace. The author describes systematically those factors common to wars between equal states to see if there is a pattern that suggests why war occurs, and how it might be avoided or mitigated, delineating the typical path by which relatively equal states have become embroiled in wars with one another in the modern global system. Emphasis is placed on the issues that give rise to war and how the practices of power politics lead to a series of steps that produce war rather than peace. The book differs from others in that it employs the large number of empirical findings generated in the last twenty-five years as the basis of its theorizing, and integrates these research findings so as to advance dramatically the scientific knowledge of war and peace.
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Other form: | Print version: Vasquez, John A., 1945- War puzzle. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1993 0521366739
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