Publication

1996 - Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

Language

English

Word Count

58,750 words, Guess

Page Count

235 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads3374814
  • LibraryThing22116

Classifications

  • DDC355.027
  • LCCU21.2 .S83 1996

Description

In this highly original and important book, Hidemi Suganami analyses one of the fundamental questions of international relations: what causes war? Drawing on historical, statistical, and philosophical perspectives to produce an innovative theory, he rejects the simplistic notion that war can be explained by some straightforward formula, yet demonstrates that there are basic similarities among the diverse origins of wars. Such similarities, he argues, are rooted in the way the origins of wars, conventionally, are narrated. Comparing various narrative accounts of the origins of wars, Suganami shows that enquiry into the causes of war is inseparable from the question of responsibility.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • On the causes of warClarendon Press1996-01-01

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