This book offers a fresh perspective on timeless questions
concerning anarchy and order, power and principle, and public and
private morality, by taking a novel approach to the study of the
onset of war. Rather than looking at the distribution of wealth,
military might, or other material capabilities to explain the onset
of war, this book focuses instead on how international norms affect
the use of military force. Critical of the realist assumption that
international legal norms are unable to curb hostilities without a
powerful central authority to enforce their injunctions, it
contends that the normative context within which national leaders
act sets the tone for world politics by communicating commonly
accepted understandings about the limits of permissible action.
Using quantitative analyses of the relationships between
war-initiation norms and various types of armed conflict, the
author calls into question realist beliefs regarding international
norms, demonstrating that restrictive normative orders reduce the
likelihood of war.
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