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engaged the questions of what causes war and how humankind might eliminate war or at least bring it under greater control. Their efforts have led to a proliferation of theories but to no consensus as to the causes of war or of other forms of social violence. Scholars disagree not only on the specifi c causes of war, but also on how
leading theories of causes of war between nation-states, some familiarity with the causes of the 10-15 wars students select as their research projects, and a much deeper understanding of “their war.”
After a significant decline in the incidence of wars between states since World War II, could the world be moving back towards more frequent interstate crises and wars? Russia’s seizure of Crimea, its support of aggression in Ukraine, its threats against
I organize this review and assessment of the literature on the causes of war around a levels-of-analysis framework and focus primarily on balance of power theories, power transition theories, the relationship between eco-nomic interdependence and war, diversionary theories of conflict, domestic coalitional theories, and the nature of decision-ma...
What can we do to bring ongoing wars to an end and to consolidate peace in their aftermath? This course addresses these questions, focusing on a variety of popular and scholarly explanations for war and peace.
Conceptualizing war as a bargaining failure, the theory identifies the main causal mechanisms behind political violence: uncertainty and security dilemmas, incentives to misrepresent information about capabilities and resolve, problems to credibly commit to upholding mutually beneficial deals and issue indivisibility (Fearon, 1995; Lake, 2003; R...
The Causes of War Syllabus - Jack Levy - Free download as PDF File (.pdf), Text File (.txt) or read online for free. This document provides an overview of a course on the causes of war taught by Professor Jack S. Levy at Rutgers University.
