Why nations fight

"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 conventional wisdom, only a minority of these were motivated by security or material interest. Instead, the majority are the result of a quest for standing, and for revenge - an attempt to get even with states who had previously made successful territorial grabs"--

שנה

2010

שפה

English

הוצאה

Cambridge University Press

מהדורות

1

עמודים

295

ISBN

9780521192835

מקור הנתונים: Wikidata