| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 268 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cornell studies in security affairs
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Cornell studies in security affairs.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Questions Addressed, Why They Arise -- Arguments Advanced, Answers Offered -- Implications for Realism -- Methods -- Plan of the Book -- False Optimism: Illusions of the Coming War -- False Hope and War -- Illusions of Victory -- Illusions of Cheap War -- To Prevent War, Promote Transparency -- Jumping the Gun: First-Move Advantages and Crisis Instability -- First-Strike, First-Mobilization, and First-Move Advantages -- Hypotheses on the Effects of First-Move Advantages -- Tests of Stability Theory -- Causes of and Cures for First-Move Advantage -- Power Shifts: Windows of Opportunity and Vulnerability -- Types of Windows -- Hypotheses on the Effects of Windows -- Tests of Window Theory -- Causes and Cures of Windows -- Cumulative Resources -- What Is Cumulativity? -- Cumulativity and Conflict -- Types of Cumulativity -- Beliefs about Cumulativity and Their Implications -- Future of Cumulativity -- Offense, Defense, and the Security Dilemma -- Hypotheses on the Effects of Offense Dominance -- Qualifications: When Offensive Doctrines and Capabilities Cause Peace -- Causes of Offense and Defense Dominance -- Predictions and Tests of Offense-Defense Theory -- How Much History Can Offense-Defense Theory Explain? -- Offense-Defense Theory in Perspective -- Offense-Defense Theory and the Outbreak of World War I -- Rise of the Cult of the Offensive, 1890-1914 -- Predictions of Offense-Defense Theory about Europe, 1890-1914 -- Evidence on Offense-Defense Theory, 1890-1914 -- Offense-Defense Theory and the Test of 1914. |
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| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
| System Details |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
War.
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War. |
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Balance of power.
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Balance of power. |
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International relations -- Case studies.
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International relations. |
| Genre/Form |
Case studies.
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Electronic books.
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Case studies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Van Evera, Stephen. Causes of war. Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 1999 (DLC) 98043650 |
| ISBN |
9780801467196 (electronic book) |
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0801467195 (electronic book) |
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0801432014 (cloth alkaline paper) |
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080148295X (paper alkaline paper) |
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9780801482953 (paperback alkaline paper) |
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9780801432019 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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