War in the Modern Great Power System: 1495-1975

The apparently accelerating arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union and the precarious political conditions existing in many parts of the world have given rise to new anxiety about the possibility of military confrontation between the superpowers. Despite the fateful nature of the risk, we have little knowledge, as Jack S. Levy has pointed out, "of the conditions, processes, and events which might combine to generate such a calamity. "No empirically confirmed theory of the cause

Author: Jack S. Levy
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: 07/15/2014
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780813153391

About the Author

Jack S. Levy, assistant professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has contributed studies of international war to International Studies Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.

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