Why Nations Fight Lebow Richard Ned Dartmouth College New Hampshire
Why Nations Fight Lebow Richard Ned Dartmouth College New Hampshire Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Instead, the majority are…
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Why Nations Fight Lebow Richard Ned Dartmouth College New Hampshire
Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Instead, the majority are the result of a quest for standing, and for revenge - an attempt to get even with states who had previously made successful territorial grabs. Using an original dataset, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, only a minority of these were motivated by security or material interest.
His analysis allows for more fine-grained and persuasive forecasts about the future of war as well as highlighting areas of Lebow maintains that today none of these motives are effectively served by war - it is increasingly counterproductive - and that there is growing recognition of this political reality.