04511oam 22007454a 450 99647576140331620210915043156.00-8014-6816-70-8014-6817-510.7591/9780801468179(CKB)2550000001039397(OCoLC)836207133(CaPaEBR)ebrary10678383(SSID)ssj0000880463(PQKBManifestationID)11528006(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000880463(PQKBWorkID)10897262(PQKB)11785537(StDuBDS)EDZ0001504899(OCoLC)966869040(MdBmJHUP)muse51880(DE-B1597)478550(OCoLC)979954147(DE-B1597)9780801468179(Au-PeEL)EBL3138452(CaPaEBR)ebr10678383(CaONFJC)MIL681757(ScCtBLL)f626feb4-ce25-494d-b00c-27cc1be54900(MiAaPQ)EBC3138452(EXLCZ)99255000000103939720121026d2013 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtccrLogics of WarExplanations for Limited and Unlimited Conflicts /Alex WeisigerIthaca :Cornell University Press,2013.©2013.1 online resource (297 p.) Cornell studies in security affairsBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph1-322-50475-X 0-8014-5186-8 Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-280) and index.Explanations for limited and unlimited wars -- Research strategy and statistical tests -- War to the death in Paraguay -- World War II : German expansion and Allied response -- Commitment problem mini-cases : the Crimean, Pacific, and Iran-Iraq wars -- Short wars of optimism : Persian Gulf and Anglo-Iranian -- The limits on leaders : the Falklands War and the Franco-Turkish War -- Recapitulations, implications, and prognostications.Most wars between countries end quickly and at relatively low cost. The few in which high-intensity fighting continues for years bring about a disproportionate amount of death and suffering. What separates these few unusually long and intense wars from the many conflicts that are far less destructive? In Logics of War, Alex Weisiger tests three explanations for a nation's decision to go to war and continue fighting regardless of the costs. He combines sharp statistical analysis of interstate wars over the past two centuries with nine narrative case studies. He examines both well-known conflicts like World War II and the Persian Gulf War, as well as unfamiliar ones such as the 1864-1870 Paraguayan War (or the War of the Triple Alliance), which proportionally caused more deaths than any other war in modern history. When leaders go to war expecting easy victory, events usually correct their misperceptions quickly and with fairly low casualties, thereby setting the stage for a negotiated agreement. A second explanation involves motives born of domestic politics; as war becomes more intense, however, leaders are increasingly constrained in their ability to continue the fighting. Particularly destructive wars instead arise from mistrust of an opponent's intentions. Countries that launch preventive wars to forestall expected decline tend to have particularly ambitious war aims that they hold to even when fighting goes poorly. Moreover, in some cases, their opponents interpret the preventive attack as evidence of a dispositional commitment to aggression, resulting in the rejection of any form of negotiation and a demand for unconditional surrender. Weisiger's treatment of a topic of central concern to scholars of major wars will also be read with great interest by military historians, political psychologists, and sociologists.Cornell studies in security affairs.Total warLow-intensity conflicts (Military science)Limited warWarCausesElectronic books. Total war.Low-intensity conflicts (Military science)Limited war.WarCauses.355.02Weisiger Alex1977-910606MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK996475761403316Logics of war2037974UNISA02410nam 2200589 450 991082847790332120230803034519.00-295-80495-5(CKB)3710000000089412(EBL)3444574(SSID)ssj0001189804(PQKBManifestationID)11950860(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001189804(PQKBWorkID)11178377(PQKB)11639921(MiAaPQ)EBC3444574(Au-PeEL)EBL3444574(CaPaEBR)ebr10839456(CaONFJC)MIL810458(OCoLC)870994419(EXLCZ)99371000000008941220140305h20132013 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWriting in Tongues translating Yiddish in the twentieth century /Anita NorichSeattle, Washington :University of Washington Press,2013.©20131 online resource (160 p.)Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studies"A Samuel and Althea Stroum Book."0-295-99297-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Chapter 1. Translation Theory and Practice: The Yiddish Difference""; ""Chapter 2. How Tevye Learned to Fiddle""; ""Chapter 3. Remembering Jews: Translating Yiddish after the Holocaust""; ""Chapter 4. Returning to and from the Ghetto: Yankev Glatshteyn""; ""Chapter 5. Concluding Lines and Conclusions""; ""Appendix A. Anna Margolin's "Maris tfile" in Yiddish and Translations""; ""Appendix B. Twelve Translations of Yankev Glatshteyn's "A gute nakht, velt"""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""Samuel and Althea Stroum lectures in Jewish studiesYiddish literatureTranslatingYiddish languageTranslatingYiddish literatureHistory and criticismYiddish literatureTranslating.Yiddish languageTranslating.Yiddish literatureHistory and criticism.439/.1802Norich Anita1952-1607988MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910828477903321Writing in Tongues3954793UNINA