Format:
1 online resource (215 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780203011683
Content:
This work explains how wars are most likely to escalate when the effects of warfare are limited. The author demonstrates that total wars during the modern era were very violent and were far less likely to spread, yet the cost of warfare is falling making future conflicts more likely to spread.
Content:
Book Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- METHOD AND ORGANIZATION -- NOTES -- 2 Predation, Balancing and Political Cost -- A THEORY OF WAR WIDENING -- Predation -- Balancing -- Predation and Balancing: Small Powers -- PREDICTING PREDATION AND BALANCING -- Defining Political Cost -- Low Political Cost: Limited War -- The Change to Total War -- Using Political Cost to Make Predictions -- Summary -- ALTERNATIVE EXPLANATIONS -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 3 The Seven Years' War (1756-63) -- THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS -- Predation -- Balancing -- THE SEVEN YEARS' WAR: AN OVERVIEW -- TO JOIN? -- Austria -- Russia -- Prussia -- Sweden -- Spain -- OR NOT TO JOIN? -- Denmark -- Holland -- Summary -- COMPETING THEORIES -- Alliances -- Offense Dominance -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 4 The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars -- THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS -- Predation -- Balancing -- FIRST COALITION (1792-97) -- TO JOIN? -- Prussia -- Britain -- Holland -- Italy -- Spain -- Portugal -- OR NOT TO JOIN? -- Russia -- Sweden -- Summary -- THE WAR OF LIBERATION -- TO JOIN? -- Prussia -- Austria -- Britain -- Spain and Portugal -- Other German States -- Sweden -- Denmark -- The United States of America -- Summary -- Why Did This Coalition Succeed? -- CASE CONCLUSION -- COMPETING THEORIES -- Offense Dominance -- Alliances -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 5 The Crimean War (1853-56) -- THEORETICAL PREDICTIONS -- Predation -- Balancing -- A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE CRIMEAN WAR -- Background -- The Holy Places Crisis -- The Ninth Russo-Turkish War -- The Crimean War -- TO JOIN? -- France -- Great Britain -- Sardinia -- OR NOT TO JOIN? -- Austria -- Prussia -- Sweden -- Persia -- Greece -- United States -- Summary -- COMPETING THEORIES -- Alliances -- Offense Dominance -- CONCLUSION -- NOTES -- 6 World War I.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780714653075
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780714653075
Language:
English
URL:
https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/kxp/detail.action?docID=214542
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