Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War by Richard Ned Lebow

Why Nations Fight: Past and Future Motives for War

Richard Ned Lebow

295 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced
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Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Using an original dataset, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to ...

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