The scourge of war
Subtitle: new extensions on an old problem
By: edited by Paul F. Diehl
Contributors: Diehl, Paul F.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ann Arbor
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
Subjects: War; War -- Causes; War -- Mathematical models
Description: "J. David Singer's legendary Correlates of War project represented the first comprehensive effort by political scientists to gather and analyze empirical data about the causes of war. In doing so, Singer and his colleagues transformed the face of twentieth-century political science. Their work provoked some of the most important debates in modern international relations -- about the rules governing territory, international intervention, and the so-called "democratic peace." Editor Paul F. Diehl has now convened some of the world's foremost international conflict analysis specialists to reassess COW's contribution to our understanding of global conflict. Each chapter takes one of COW's pathbreaking ideas and reevaluates it in light of subsequent world events and developments in the field. The result is a critical retrospective that will reintroduce Singer's important and still-provocative findings to a new generation of students and specialists"--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 237-260) and index
Table of contents: title: Power laws, scaling, and fractals in the most lethal international and civil wars / Claudio Cioffi-Revilla and Manus I. Midlarsky; title: A neural network analysis of militarized disputes, 1885-1992: temporal stability and causal complexity / Monica Lagazio and Bruce Russett; title: Statesmen, popular wisdom, and empirical realities in the study of conflict and war: extending the 'Predictors of war in history and in the state of the world message' / Zeev Maoz; title: The national interest versus individual political ambition: democracy, autocracy, and the reciprocation of force and violence in militarized interstate disputes / Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and James Lee Ray; title: Arms, alliances, and success in militarized disputes and wars, 1816-1992 / Volker Krausse; title: Interventions as influence / Douglas Lemke and Patrick M. Regan; title: The slow roasting of sacred cows: J. David Singer and the democratic peace / Errol A. Henderson; title: Alliances, territorial disputes, and the probability of war: testing for interactions / Paul D. Senese and John A. Vasquez; title: Toward a scientific theory of war / Daniel S. Geller