The Behavioral Origins of WarUniversity of Michigan Press, 2009 M04 9 - 280 páginas In The Behavioral Origins of War, D. Scott Bennett and Allan C. Stam analyze systemic, binary, and individual factors in order to evaluate a wide variety of theories about the origins of war. Challenging the view that theories of war are nothing more than competing explanations for observed behavior, this expansive study incorporates variables from multiple theories and thus accounts for war's multiplicity of causes. While individual theories offer partial explanations for international conflict, only a valid set of theories can provide a complete explanation. Bennett and Stam's unconventional yet methodical approach opens the way for cumulative scientific progress in international relations. D. Scott Bennett is Professor of Political Science at the Pennsylvania State University. Allan C. Stam is Associate Professor in the Government Department at Dartmouth College. |
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... analysis, a lack of comparable data sets and andings, and a lack of cumulation in our understanding of international relations. With a plethora of theories, conjectures, and hypotheses of international conbict in hand, we believe that ...
... analysis, a lack of comparable data sets and andings, and a lack of cumulation in our understanding of international relations. With a plethora of theories, conjectures, and hypotheses of international conbict in hand, we believe that ...
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... analysis. We use a methodology based on block maximum-likelihood tests and relative risk analysis that allows us to assess what theories contribute additional explanatory power to our understanding of international conbict, even after ...
... analysis. We use a methodology based on block maximum-likelihood tests and relative risk analysis that allows us to assess what theories contribute additional explanatory power to our understanding of international conbict, even after ...
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... analysis that would allow us to (1) evaluate the relative explanatory power of these various descriptions and (2) reach some sense of consensus about which stories are the most useful or valuable in understanding international political ...
... analysis that would allow us to (1) evaluate the relative explanatory power of these various descriptions and (2) reach some sense of consensus about which stories are the most useful or valuable in understanding international political ...
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... analyses we do not attempt to eliminate conjectures based on ontological rigor or the internal logical consistency of the arguments. Rather, we focus solely on their empirical content. A quite different form of comparative analysis ...
... analyses we do not attempt to eliminate conjectures based on ontological rigor or the internal logical consistency of the arguments. Rather, we focus solely on their empirical content. A quite different form of comparative analysis ...
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... analysis and that the subsequent inclusion of the potentially confounding explanations could even reverse the direction of the previous andings (Gowa 1999; Mansaeld and Snyder 1995). Finally, the lack of large-scale comparative testing ...
... analysis and that the subsequent inclusion of the potentially confounding explanations could even reverse the direction of the previous andings (Gowa 1999; Mansaeld and Snyder 1995). Finally, the lack of large-scale comparative testing ...
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15 | |
The Practice and Pitfalls of Comparative Hypothesis Testing | 35 |
4 Arguments and Operational Measures | 70 |
5 Findings | 107 |
6 Assessing a Models Reliability across Space and Time | 165 |
7 Conclusion | 200 |
EUGene | 223 |
Appendix B Measuring Expected Utility | 232 |
Notes | 249 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Index | 277 |
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