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Roundtable 9-16 on Coercion, Survival, and War: Why Weak States Resist the United States

May 22, 2017May 20, 2017 By Dan Byman, Dan Altman, Christine M. Leah, Todd S. Sechser, Andrew L. Stigler, Phil Haun

Philip Haun’s Coercion, Survival and War: Why Weak States Resist the United States is a much-needed book. After over a decade where the struggle against terrorism dominated policy, conflicts among states—such as the tension between China and Japan over disputed islands or European and U.S. efforts to push back against Russia’s attempts to expand its…

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Policy Series: Will Trumpism increase the Danger of War in the International System?: IR Theory and the Illiberal Turn in World Politics

April 27, 2017September 4, 2017 By Benjamin Miller

This short piece focuses on mapping and evaluating some of the expectations of International Relations (IR) theory with regard to the potential effects of Trumpism and the illiberal turn in world politics on war and peace.[1] Obviously, there is a high degree of uncertainty here, but that does not mean that such an intellectual exercise…

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Roundtable 8-12 on Democratic Militarism: Voting, Wealth, and War

April 25, 2016July 5, 2017 By David A. Lake, Christopher J. Coyne, Elizabeth N. Saunders, Pascal Vennesson, Jonathan D. Caverley

Jonathan Caverley challenges our image of democracies – and mass publics – as being relatively averse to war. The costs of war, he correctly argues, are not distributed evenly across all citizens. Those who are taxed less heavily than others or do not serve in the military, he reasons, will be less averse to war…

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Roundtable 8-11 on Economic Interdependence and War

February 29, 2016February 2, 2017 By James McAllister, Benjamin O. Fordham, Richard W. Maass, Patrick Shea, Dale C. Copeland

Dale Copeland’s Economic Interdependence and War is an ambitious book that should receive close attention from both international-relations theorists and diplomatic historians. The author’s main objective is to offer an alternative explanation of the relationship between commerce and international conflict, one that challenges both liberal and realist theories. In his view, liberals are correct to…

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Review Essay 25 on Logics of War: Explanations for Limited and Unlimited Conflicts

December 10, 2014February 2, 2017 By Robert Trager

The book produced by Alex Weisiger is a substantial contribution to rationalist theory in international relations.  Weisiger investigates the effects of commitment problems in international bargaining on the conduct, duration, and destructiveness of wars.  The book is among only a few works that closely analyze international history from the perspective of recent developments in the…

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Review Essay 19 on Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War

November 8, 2013February 2, 2017 By Rosemary A. Kelanic

In Petro-Aggression: When Oil Causes War, Jeff Colgan provides an indispensable starting point for researchers interested in the relationship between oil and international conflict. Although the term ‘energy security’ is now ubiquitous in political speeches and the media, international relations scholars have only just begun to rediscover the topic after a thirty-year hiatus. The 1970s…

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Roundtable 6-1 on The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation

September 16, 2013September 27, 2015 By H-Diplo

The book under discussion here is The Arc of War: Origins, Escalation, and Transformation by two political scientists of international relations, each with impressive track records of work drawing on both historical detail and political science theory. It is a very ambitious book that deserves close attention by an interdisciplinary audience such as the readers…

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Forum 1 on Marc Trachtenberg’s “Audience Costs in 1954?”

September 6, 2013December 24, 2020 By H-Diplo

Fredrik Logevall’s Pulitzer prize-winning Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam has understandably sparked renewed interest in and debate over the origins of America’s involvement in Vietnam.[1] As Lloyd Gardner and other historians have argued, the heart of Logevall’s book is his analysis of the crucial events of…

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Roundtable 3-19 on How Wars End

August 1, 2012September 28, 2015 By H-Diplo

Historians and political scientists alike should appreciate Dan Reiter’s How Wars End. It eschews statistical analysis for comparative case-studies because the answers are “complex and nuanced” (6) and defers formal proofs for plain-language explanations. The six empirical chapters are based on case-specific puzzles rather than theory-driven questions. The three reviewers—Dale Copeland, Hein Goemans, and Zachary…

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Roundtable 3-9 on How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires and the American Way of War

February 22, 2012January 25, 2016 By H-Diplo

Dominic Tierney’s How We Fight: Crusades, Quagmires, and the American Ways of War is an unusual achievement.  It is a provocative scholarly book about the U.S. approach to war that was written for a broad non-academic audience.  For the academic and layperson alike, it succeeds in establishing that the heated controversies of the moment follow…

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