to his history of the great war between the Spartans and the Athenians, Thucydides wrote
that he was addressing" those inquirers who desire an exact knowledge of the past as an …

the theoretical literature in political science on the causes of war and historians' case studies
of the origins of particular wars without being struck by the difference in their respective …

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International Relations and the Problem of Difference has developed out of the sense that IR
as a discipline does not assess the quality of cultural interactions that shape, and are …

This book offers an original combination of cultural and narrative theory with an empirical
study of identity and political action. It is at once a powerful critique of rational choice …

Abstract The Thirty Years War (1618-48) was the most destructive conflict in Europe before
the twentieth-century world wars. There are several explanations of what caused the war …

Why do wars occur and recur, especially in cases when the decisions involved are made by
careful and rational actors? There are many answers to this question. Given the importance …

Since the field of International Relations was established almost a century ago, many
different theoretical approaches have been developed, each offering distinctive accounts of …

Since Munich, appeasement—a policy of making unilateral concessions in the hope of
avoiding conflict—has been considered a disastrous strategy. Conceding to one adversary …

There may be no rational way to convert to our point of view people who honestly hold other
positions, but we cannot shortcircuit such disagreements. Instead, we should live with them …