One of the most important questions of human existence is what drives nations to war—especially massive, system-threatening war. Much military history focuses
This analysis of the origins of major wars, since the development of the modern state system in Europe centuries ago, also considers the problems involved in pr
A brilliant and vitally important history of why states go to war, by the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Peloponnesian War. War has been a fact of life
Now in a thoroughly revised and updated edition, this classic text presents a comprehensive survey of the many alternative theories that attempt to explain the
The end of the Cold War was a "big bang" reminiscent of earlier moments after major wars, such as the end of the Napoleonic Wars in 1815 and the end of the worl