unusually high standard of democracy (Polity2 = 10) is employed on analyses of fatal militarized interstate disputes, then it is … other—may be spurious: a capitalist contract-intensive economy appears to account for both democracy and the democratic … not possible to differentiate which factor causes the peace, capitalism or democracy. This study re-examines the …

The U.S is committed to supporting democracy in the Arab world during the Bush administration after the failure in the … Iraqi war. This interest changed during Obama years who put Arab – Israeli conflict as priority for his administration. The … U.S also has other agendas, most notably the security aspects of the so-called “war on terror”. When these agendas …

Wars, the Vietnam War, and the 1973 Arab-Israeli war, to the ongoing insurgency in Iraq. At times, initiators of conflict … and insurgent attacks in contemporary Iraq. I then examine testimonies from the 1973 Arab-Israeli War to show that …

in times of war – i.e., men …

In 2005, Joseph Lane Jr. remarked: “Whenever we get a new war, we get a new Thucydides.” The fact that scholars and … policymakers have turned to the History in response to the two world wars, the Cold War, the Gulf War, the more recent Iraq War and … the “war on terror” demonstrates the extent to which Thucydides functions as a mirror for society during hard times. But …

effacing the barrier between war and politics.I first compare the Army's capstone doctrine of 1993, 2001, and 2008 to show that …

Is systematically targeting an adversary's civilians in war an effective military strategy? This paper assesses the … historical record of civilian victimization and interstate war outcomes from 1816 to 2003. We begin by disaggregating civilian … declined over time. Brief case studies of the Siege of Paris in the Franco-Prussian War (1870-71) and British counterinsurgency …

candidate explanations for German behavior before the world wars: the preventive war hypothesis and the Innenpolitik hypothesis …. I find that the logic of prevention does not motivate either war in the long term; security concerns were at most an … intervening phenomenon in the process leading to war. On the other hand, there is strong evidence to suggest that domestic …

territorial control in the Vietnam War. The aim of the paper is to evaluate the logic of attrition in insurgencies at the village …