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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... comparable data sets and findings, and a lack of cumulation in our understanding of in- ternational relations. With a plethora of theories, conjectures, and hy- potheses of international conflict in hand, we believe that it is appro ...
... comparable data sets and findings, and a lack of cumulation in our understanding of in- ternational relations. With a plethora of theories, conjectures, and hy- potheses of international conflict in hand, we believe that it is appro ...
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... comparable in terms of predictive effect. We demonstrate that in terms of empirical explanatory power there is no existing single dominant theory of international conflict in the international relations literature. Rather, we must take ...
... comparable in terms of predictive effect. We demonstrate that in terms of empirical explanatory power there is no existing single dominant theory of international conflict in the international relations literature. Rather, we must take ...
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... compared to other disciplines, cumulative progress in political science may be particularly difficult to achieve for at least two principle reasons. One has to do with the limited availability of some critical data. For some problems in ...
... compared to other disciplines, cumulative progress in political science may be particularly difficult to achieve for at least two principle reasons. One has to do with the limited availability of some critical data. For some problems in ...
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... compared to variables drawn from psy- chological approaches (Huth and Russett 1993) or a selected set of in- ternational system structure variables compared to a set of variables drawn from a dyadic perspective (Bueno de Mesquita and ...
... compared to variables drawn from psy- chological approaches (Huth and Russett 1993) or a selected set of in- ternational system structure variables compared to a set of variables drawn from a dyadic perspective (Bueno de Mesquita and ...
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... comparing the various arguments' relative explanatory or predictive power. More recently, John Vasquez's The War Puzzle (1994) provides a self-described meta-analysis of the literature on interstate war. Vasquez similarly makes no ...
... comparing the various arguments' relative explanatory or predictive power. More recently, John Vasquez's The War Puzzle (1994) provides a self-described meta-analysis of the literature on interstate war. Vasquez similarly makes no ...
Contenido
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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alliance approach argue arguments arms races balance of power baseline Bueno de Mesquita capabilities causal compute conflict behavior conflict initiation conjectures contiguity correlate data set decision defense pacts democracy democratic peace dependent variable Deterrence directed dyad directed dyad-year dispute initiation disputes that escalate dyadic Dyads No Dispute empirical equilibrium predictions estimate EUGene expected utility theory explanations factors fixed-effects game theoretic game tree hypotheses increase initiation and escalation interaction international conflict international politics international system interstate leaders Lemke levels of analysis logic logit measures Mesquita and Lalman military multinomial logit multiple NATO nondirected nuclear weapons Oneal outcomes percent periods Politically Relevant Dyads Polity Change potential power transition Prob problem rational choice theory Reciprocated Force region relative risk risk of conflict risk of disputes risk ratios Russett scores Stam suggest system power concentration target theoretical tion tional trade dependence Unilateral Force values versus