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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... nature of interna- tional conflict, we have been much less successful at conducting the type of rigorous analysis that would allow us to (1) evaluate the relative ex- planatory power of these various descriptions and (2) reach some ...
... nature of interna- tional conflict, we have been much less successful at conducting the type of rigorous analysis that would allow us to (1) evaluate the relative ex- planatory power of these various descriptions and (2) reach some ...
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... nature of the objects under study is rather different . In fact , most so - called theories of international politics are not really theories at all . Here , by “ theory ” we mean a logically 3 Toward a Better Understanding.
... nature of the objects under study is rather different . In fact , most so - called theories of international politics are not really theories at all . Here , by “ theory ” we mean a logically 3 Toward a Better Understanding.
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... nature of some past international conflict . In other cases , we see arguments about some fac- tor ( such as economic interdependence ) that supposedly affects the like- lihood of conflict without defining precisely what sort of ...
... nature of some past international conflict . In other cases , we see arguments about some fac- tor ( such as economic interdependence ) that supposedly affects the like- lihood of conflict without defining precisely what sort of ...
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... natural language approaches (Walt 2000). Absent broad comparative tests and rigorous evidence, claims that the realist approach is better than approaches based in domestic politics are certainly pre- mature, despite prominent scholars ...
... natural language approaches (Walt 2000). Absent broad comparative tests and rigorous evidence, claims that the realist approach is better than approaches based in domestic politics are certainly pre- mature, despite prominent scholars ...
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... nature of international politics as “international relations theory.” Few so-called theories of international politics contain deduc- tively formal logic or even careful attention to internal consistency and instead pose loosely ...
... nature of international politics as “international relations theory.” Few so-called theories of international politics contain deduc- tively formal logic or even careful attention to internal consistency and instead pose loosely ...
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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