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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... limited settings, despite expansive claims about the theory's power and scope. Given the limited tests of most theories in international relations, claims about the power of this and other theories are often overstated. Different ...
... limited settings, despite expansive claims about the theory's power and scope. Given the limited tests of most theories in international relations, claims about the power of this and other theories are often overstated. Different ...
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... limited availability of some critical data. For some problems in political science, there simply is insufficient data for re- searchers to test their hypotheses or arguments. For example, the com- plete absence of wars between modern ...
... limited availability of some critical data. For some problems in political science, there simply is insufficient data for re- searchers to test their hypotheses or arguments. For example, the com- plete absence of wars between modern ...
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... limited efforts exist to compare systematically the predictive power of the myriad different explana- tions of international conflict—or, more precisely, the explanatory power of the independent variables expected to correlate with ...
... limited efforts exist to compare systematically the predictive power of the myriad different explana- tions of international conflict—or, more precisely, the explanatory power of the independent variables expected to correlate with ...
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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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