TY  - BOOK
AU  - SOBEK David
TI  - The causes of war
SN  - 9780745641980 (hbk) :
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Polity Press
KW  - CAUSES OF WAR
KW  - INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
N2  - Given the huge costs and unpredicatability of war why do states choose conflict over diplomacy? Using numerous examples this book tries to explain this apparently irrational behaviour by considering how states behave, how the interact with each other, the  effect of the international system, effect of power transitions as states wax and wane, and the recently more prominent role of non-state entities
ER  -