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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... multiple sources of behavior need not be contradictory; rather, they may be either complementary or competing. Following this logic, many theories or hypotheses may simultaneously be correct. We argue that traditional conceptions of and ...
... multiple sources of behavior need not be contradictory; rather, they may be either complementary or competing. Following this logic, many theories or hypotheses may simultaneously be correct. We argue that traditional conceptions of and ...
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... multiple theories may each explain part of reality, not all theories are created equal, and some theories have more empirical relevance than others. But we cannot tell this without engaging in broad comparative empirical testing ...
... multiple theories may each explain part of reality, not all theories are created equal, and some theories have more empirical relevance than others. But we cannot tell this without engaging in broad comparative empirical testing ...
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... multiple drafts and tolerated numerous long-winded and one-sided discussions about the deeper meaning of our results. Stam remains gratefully indebted to Russett for his constant support in this and many other endeavors. Rogers Smith ...
... multiple drafts and tolerated numerous long-winded and one-sided discussions about the deeper meaning of our results. Stam remains gratefully indebted to Russett for his constant support in this and many other endeavors. Rogers Smith ...
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... multiple explanations of organized international violence in a simultaneous framework, we cannot judge the relative power of competing explanations or predictions. We believe this lack of comparative testing to be a main culprit for our ...
... multiple explanations of organized international violence in a simultaneous framework, we cannot judge the relative power of competing explanations or predictions. We believe this lack of comparative testing to be a main culprit for our ...
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... multiple factors associated with various theoretical perspectives may simultaneously inbuence the conbicts we are trying to understand—dualistic elimination is inappropriate. In addition, because we view human behavior as probabilistic ...
... multiple factors associated with various theoretical perspectives may simultaneously inbuence the conbicts we are trying to understand—dualistic elimination is inappropriate. In addition, because we view human behavior as probabilistic ...
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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