How wars end [electronic resource] / Dan Reiter.
Reiter, Dan, 1967-
2009
JZ5560 .R45 2009eb
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Title How wars end [electronic resource] / Dan Reiter.
Author Reiter, Dan, 1967-
ISBN 9781400831036 (electronic bk.)
9780691140605
9780691140599
Publication Details Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2009.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xvi, 301 p.) : ill., maps
Call Number JZ5560 .R45 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 355.02
Summary "Why do some countries choose to end wars short of total victory while others fight on, sometimes in the face of appalling odds? How Wars End argues that two central factors shape war-termination decision making: information about the balance of power and the resolve of one's enemy, and fears that the other side's commitment to abide by a war-ending peace settlement may not be credible.Dan Reiter explains how information about combat outcomes and other factors may persuade a warring nation to demand more or less in peace negotiations, and why a country might refuse to negotiate limited terms and instead tenaciously pursue absolute victory if it fears that its enemy might renege on a peace deal. He fully lays out the theory and then tests it on more than twenty cases of war-termination behavior, including decisions during the American Civil War, the two world wars, and the Korean War. Reiter helps solve some of the most enduring puzzles in military history, such as why Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, why Germany in 1918 renewed its attack in the West after securing peace with Russia in the East, and why Britain refused to seek peace terms with Germany after France fell in 1940.How Wars End concludes with a timely discussion of twentieth-century American foreign policy, framing the Bush Doctrine's emphasis on preventive war in the context of the theory."--GoogleBooks.
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Ending wars
Bargaining, information, and ending wars
Credible commitments and war termination
Conducting empirical tests
The Korean War
The Allies, 1940-42
The logic of war : Finland and the USSR, 1939-44
The American Civil War
Germany, 1917-18
Japan, 1944-45.

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