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Why Nations Fight : Past and Future Motives for War, PDF eBook

Why Nations Fight : Past and Future Motives for War PDF

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Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing, and revenge.

Using an original data set, Richard Ned Lebow examines the distribution of wars across three and a half centuries and argues that, contrary to conventional wisdom, only a minority of these were motivated by security or material interest.

Instead, the majority are the result of a quest for standing, and for revenge - an attempt to get even with states who had previously made successful territorial grabs.

Lebow maintains that today none of these motives are effectively served by war - it is increasingly counterproductive - and that there is growing recognition of this political reality.

His analysis allows for more fine-grained and persuasive forecasts about the future of war as well as highlighting areas of uncertainty.

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