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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... system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the written ... International relations. I. Stam, Allan C. II. Title. u21.2 .b3973 2003 355.02—dc21 2003012933 ISBN 978-0-472-09844-6 ...
... system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, or otherwise, without the written ... International relations. I. Stam, Allan C. II. Title. u21.2 .b3973 2003 355.02—dc21 2003012933 ISBN 978-0-472-09844-6 ...
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... international relations will be made more rapidly if we shift to analyses that focus both on what set of theories is valid and on the relative explanatory power of those theories. While multiple theories may each explain part of reality ...
... international relations will be made more rapidly if we shift to analyses that focus both on what set of theories is valid and on the relative explanatory power of those theories. While multiple theories may each explain part of reality ...
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... INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Clearly, evaluating the relative explanatory power of ... international conbict—or, more precisely, the explanatory power of the independent ... system structure variables compared to a set of variables drawn from a ...
... INTERNATIONAL POLITICS Clearly, evaluating the relative explanatory power of ... international conbict—or, more precisely, the explanatory power of the independent ... system structure variables compared to a set of variables drawn from a ...
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... international conbict behavior (Bremer 1992; Huth, Bennett, and Gelpi 1992 ... international conbict have received remarkably little empirical evaluation with large ... system structure conjectures, status inconsistency, arms race models ...
... international conbict behavior (Bremer 1992; Huth, Bennett, and Gelpi 1992 ... international conbict have received remarkably little empirical evaluation with large ... system structure conjectures, status inconsistency, arms race models ...
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... international conbicts arise through the conbuence of multiple weak factors. This suggests that debates such as ... system. Even system-level factors must ultimately inbuence the outcomes we observe by affecting the decisions of states ...
... international conbicts arise through the conbuence of multiple weak factors. This suggests that debates such as ... system. Even system-level factors must ultimately inbuence the outcomes we observe by affecting the decisions of states ...
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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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