One of the most important questions of human existence is what
drives nations to war especially massive, system-threatening war.
Much military history focuses on the who, when, and where of war.
In this riveting book, Dale C. Copeland brings attention to bear on
why governments make decisions that lead to, sustain, and intensify
conflicts.
Copeland presents detailed historical narratives of several
twentieth-century cases, including World War I, World War II, and
the Cold War. He highlights instigating factors that transcend
individual personalities, styles of government, geography, and
historical context to reveal remarkable consistency across several
major wars usually considered dissimilar. The result is a series of
challenges to established interpretive positions and provocative
new readings of the causes of conflict.
Classical realists and neorealists claim that dominant powers
initiate war. Hegemonic stability realists believe that wars are
most often started by rising states. Copeland offers an approach
stronger in explanatory power and predictive capacity than these
three brands of realism: he examines not only the power resources
but the shifting power differentials of states. He specifies more
precisely the conditions under which state decline leads to
conflict, drawing empirical support from the critical cases of the
twentieth century as well as major wars spanning from ancient
Greece to the Napoleonic Wars."
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