中图分类法:	D068 版次：
著者:	Lebow, Richard Ned.
题名:	Why nations fight : [ past and future motives for war /] / ,
出版发行:	出版地： Cambridge, UK ; 出版社： Cambridge University Press, 出版日期： 2010.
载体形态:	xii, 295 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
内容提要:	"Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Using an original dataset, 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"--
内容提要:	"Four generic motives have historically led states to initiate war: fear, interest, standing and revenge. Using an original dataset, 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"--Provided by publisher.
主题词:	War Causes.