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• catalog abstract ""What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? A prominent political scientist here addresses these questions, offering ideas that will be widely debated."--BOOK JACKET. "Van Evera's book demonstrates that ideas from the Realist paradigm can offer strong explanations for international conflict and valuable prescriptions for its control."--Jacket.".
• catalog contributor b11101722.
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog description ""What causes war? How can military conflicts best be prevented? A prominent political scientist here addresses these questions, offering ideas that will be widely debated."--BOOK JACKET. "Van Evera's book demonstrates that ideas from the Realist paradigm can offer strong explanations for international conflict and valuable prescriptions for its control."--Jacket.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "Questions Addressed, Why They Arise -- Arguments Advanced, Answers Offered -- Implications for Realism -- Methods -- Plan of the Book -- False Optimism: Illusions of the Coming War -- False Hope and War -- Illusions of Victory -- Illusions of Cheap War -- To Prevent War, Promote Transparency -- Jumping the Gun: First-Move Advantages and Crisis Instability -- First-Strike, First-Mobilization, and First-Move Advantages -- Hypotheses on the Effects of First-Move Advantages -- Tests of Stability Theory -- Causes of and Cures for First-Move Advantage -- Power Shifts: Windows of Opportunity and Vulnerability -- Types of Windows -- Hypotheses on the Effects of Windows -- Tests of Window Theory -- Causes and Cures of Windows -- Cumulative Resources -- What Is Cumulativity? -- Cumulativity and Conflict -- Types of Cumulativity -- Beliefs about Cumulativity and Their Implications -- The Future of Cumulativity -- Offense, Defense, and the Security Dilemma -- Hypotheses on the Effects of Offense Dominance -- Qualifications: When Offensive Doctrines and Capabilities Cause Peace -- Causes of Offense and Defense Dominance -- Predictions and Tests of Offense-Defense Theory -- How Much History Can Offense-Defense Theory Explain? -- Offense-Defense Theory in Perspective -- Offense-Defense Theory and the Outbreak of World War I -- The Rise of the Cult of the Offensive, 1890-1914 -- Predictions of Offense-Defense Theory about Europe, 1890-1914 -- Evidence on Offense-Defense Theory, 1890-1914 -- Offense-Defense Theory and the Test of 1914.".
• catalog extent "viii, 270 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "Causes of war.".
• catalog identifier "0801432014 (cloth : alk. paper)".
• catalog identifier "080148295X (paper : alk. paper)".
• catalog isFormatOf "Causes of war.".
• catalog isPartOf "Cornell studies in security affairs".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "Ithaca : Cornell University Press,".
• catalog relation "Causes of war.".
• catalog subject "355.02/7 21".
• catalog subject "Balance of power.".
• catalog subject "International relations Case studies.".
• catalog subject "U21.2 .V34 1999".
• catalog subject "War.".
• catalog tableOfContents "Questions Addressed, Why They Arise -- Arguments Advanced, Answers Offered -- Implications for Realism -- Methods -- Plan of the Book -- False Optimism: Illusions of the Coming War -- False Hope and War -- Illusions of Victory -- Illusions of Cheap War -- To Prevent War, Promote Transparency -- Jumping the Gun: First-Move Advantages and Crisis Instability -- First-Strike, First-Mobilization, and First-Move Advantages -- Hypotheses on the Effects of First-Move Advantages -- Tests of Stability Theory -- Causes of and Cures for First-Move Advantage -- Power Shifts: Windows of Opportunity and Vulnerability -- Types of Windows -- Hypotheses on the Effects of Windows -- Tests of Window Theory -- Causes and Cures of Windows -- Cumulative Resources -- What Is Cumulativity? -- Cumulativity and Conflict -- Types of Cumulativity -- Beliefs about Cumulativity and Their Implications -- The Future of Cumulativity -- Offense, Defense, and the Security Dilemma -- Hypotheses on the Effects of Offense Dominance -- Qualifications: When Offensive Doctrines and Capabilities Cause Peace -- Causes of Offense and Defense Dominance -- Predictions and Tests of Offense-Defense Theory -- How Much History Can Offense-Defense Theory Explain? -- Offense-Defense Theory in Perspective -- Offense-Defense Theory and the Outbreak of World War I -- The Rise of the Cult of the Offensive, 1890-1914 -- Predictions of Offense-Defense Theory about Europe, 1890-1914 -- Evidence on Offense-Defense Theory, 1890-1914 -- Offense-Defense Theory and the Test of 1914.".
• catalog title "Causes of war : power and the roots of conflict / Stephen Van Evera.".
• catalog type "Case studies. fast".
• catalog type "text".