LEADER 03946nam 22006495 450 001 9910816644703321 005 20210107030512.0 010 $a0-8014-6704-7 010 $a0-8014-6705-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801467059 035 $a(CKB)2550000001038926 035 $a(OCoLC)847657151 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10662022 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001035796 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11576973 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001035796 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11040996 035 $a(PQKB)10648646 035 $a(DE-B1597)503302 035 $a(OCoLC)1076461272 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801467059 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138435 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001038926 100 $a20190920d2013 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe Origins of Major War /$fDale C. Copeland 210 1$aIthaca, NY : $cCornell University Press, $d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (335 p.) 225 0 $aCornell Studies in Security Affairs 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a1-322-50306-0 311 $a0-8014-8757-9 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tAbbreviations -- $tIntroduction -- $t1. Rethinking Realist Theories of Major War -- $t2. Foreign Policy Choices and the Probability of Major War -- $t3. German Security and the Preparation for World War I -- $t4. The July Crisis and the Outbreak of World War I -- $t5. The Rise of Russia and the Outbreak of World War II -- $t6. Bipolarity, Shifting Power, and the Origins of the Cold War, 1945-1950 -- $t7. The Berlin and Cuban Missile Crises -- $t8. Major War from Pericles to Napoleon -- $t9. The Implications of the Argument -- $tAppendix -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aOne of the most important questions of human existence is what drives nations to war-especially massive, system-threatening war. Much military history focuses on the who, when, and where of war. In this riveting book, Dale C. Copeland brings attention to bear on why governments make decisions that lead to, sustain, and intensify conflicts.Copeland presents detailed historical narratives of several twentieth-century cases, including World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. He highlights instigating factors that transcend individual personalities, styles of government, geography, and historical context to reveal remarkable consistency across several major wars usually considered dissimilar. The result is a series of challenges to established interpretive positions and provocative new readings of the causes of conflict.Classical realists and neorealists claim that dominant powers initiate war. Hegemonic stability realists believe that wars are most often started by rising states. Copeland offers an approach stronger in explanatory power and predictive capacity than these three brands of realism: he examines not only the power resources but the shifting power differentials of states. He specifies more precisely the conditions under which state decline leads to conflict, drawing empirical support from the critical cases of the twentieth century as well as major wars spanning from ancient Greece to the Napoleonic Wars. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses 606 $aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCauses 606 $aBalance of power 606 $aInternational relations 606 $aMilitary history, Modern 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918$xCauses 615 0$aWorld War, 1939-1945$xCauses 615 0$aBalance of power 615 0$aInternational relations 615 0$aMilitary history, Modern 676 $a940.3/11 700 $aCopeland$b Dale C., $01609557 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816644703321 996 $aThe Origins of Major War$93936852 997 $aUNINA