Publisher's Synopsis
This collection presents theories on the causes of war and the strengths and weaknesses of the various theories in the context of how they singularly and dually explain "cause and effect".;Almost all of the chapters are concerned with scientific empirically based studies of war. The organization of the book is based on the question of an appropriate choice of a level of analysis for the study of war. The various contributions fall into three areas, the first of which is structure based research, the second minimally dyadic and the final section state centered.
