The article considers the problem of using the expected utility approach to war termination. In the context of the ending of the Boer War, the authors attempt to explain why an expected utility approach has difficulty in accommodating the fact that there was a long delay between the initiation...

This article attempts to evaluate the claims of Bruce Bueno De Mesquita in The War Trap to have provided a deductive, expected utility theory of war initiation in the light of various criticisms that have been levied against him. The criticisms concern both the status of the model as a rational...