Search Results for: The Origins Of Major War

One of the most important questions of human existence is what drives nations to war—especially massive, system-threatening war. Much military history focuses

Copeland asks why governments make decisions that lead to, sustain, and intensify conflicts, drawing on detailed historical narratives of several twentieth-cent

Copeland asks why governments make decisions that lead to, sustain, and intensify conflicts, drawing on detailed historical narratives of several twentieth-cent

This analysis of the origins of major wars, since the development of the modern state system in Europe centuries ago, also considers the problems involved in pr

The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue of its origins a perennial puzzle.