? This paper argues that cultural similarity can actually cause wars, which occur to combat diffusion. This new theory of war …) and on the First World War, as well as statistical analysis on all the wars of the last two centuries. …

In book 1 Thucydides' Corinthians attribute Athenian military success in the Archidamian war to an inherent national … management in military affairs can be learned; the Athenians fared poorly in the later stages of the war in part because they …

through the extension of franchise. This is because democracy always implements a highly redistributive fiscal policy, which … makes fighting hard incentive-compatible for the citizens-soldiers. We show that a transition to democracy is more likely to …

might be at work in a democracy's prosecution of war …Using costly-process models of war with democratic citizens and soldiers, this article explores two contrasting claims … on the negative association between the probability of democratic victory and the duration of war. As a claim holds …