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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... theory of war. Empirical tests of variants of expected utility theory have been executed in very limited settings, despite expansive claims about the theory's power and scope. Given the limited tests of most theories in international ...
... theory of war. Empirical tests of variants of expected utility theory have been executed in very limited settings, despite expansive claims about the theory's power and scope. Given the limited tests of most theories in international ...
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... theory to expected utility theory to the democratic peace proposition. We include key variables from these popular theories of conbict in a multinomial logit analyses of dispute and war behavior. We and that many theories suggest ...
... theory to expected utility theory to the democratic peace proposition. We include key variables from these popular theories of conbict in a multinomial logit analyses of dispute and war behavior. We and that many theories suggest ...
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... theory models and exploring the importance of fundamental research design decisions. The advice from numerous ... THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT xii preface & acknowledgments.
... theory models and exploring the importance of fundamental research design decisions. The advice from numerous ... THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT xii preface & acknowledgments.
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... THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT i pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the arm ground of result and fact. —winston churchill, 1898 Social science, like any science, achieves progress through the accumulation ...
... THEORIES OF INTERNATIONAL CONFLICT i pass with relief from the tossing sea of cause and theory to the arm ground of result and fact. —winston churchill, 1898 Social science, like any science, achieves progress through the accumulation ...
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... theories, as stronger theories replace weaker ones through a process of “dualistic elimination.” An example of dual- istic elimination—the process of pitting one “theory” against another— appears in the simulation used by Robert Axelrod ...
... theories, as stronger theories replace weaker ones through a process of “dualistic elimination.” An example of dual- istic elimination—the process of pitting one “theory” against another— appears in the simulation used by Robert Axelrod ...
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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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