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Author Shirkey, Zachary C

Title Is This a Private Fight or Can Anybody Join? : the Spread of Interstate War
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2016

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Description 1 online resource (250 pages)
Contents Cover Page; Dedication; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Tables and Figure; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 The Puzzle of Why States Join Ongoing Wars; 2 Previous Findings and a New Theory of Joining; Correlates of Joining; Previous Theories of Joining; War, Peace, and Revealed Information; Revealed Information and Leaving Wars; Strategic Delay and Risk Aversion; 3 Statistical Analysis of the Spread of War; Variables; Methods; Results: Unexpected Events and Joining; Results: Unexpected Events and States Leaving Wars; Conclusions
4 The Crimean War: Public Opinion, Divided Cabinets, and the Partial Spread of WarState Goals and Beliefs; The Drift to War and its Spread; The Decision for Peace; Conclusions; 5 The First World War: The Growth of a World War; Bulgaria; Romania; Italy; United States; Ottoman Empire; Greece; Portugal; Termination of the War; Conclusions; 6 The Franco-Prussian War: The War that Refused to Grow; The Build-Up to War; The Antebellum Crisis and Early Stages of the War; Prussia Triumphant; Conclusions; 7 Joining Since 1945: Balancing, Bandwagoning, and the Changing Nature of Spoils; The Vietnam War
The Gulf War (1990â#x80;#x93;91)Conclusions; 8 Conclusions, Extensions, and Avenues for Future Research; Summary of the Workâ#x80;#x99;s Main Findings; Extensions; Suggestions for Future Research; Appendix: Coding for Unexpected Events, Regions, and Contiguity; Bibliography
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Subject Intervention (International law)
Intervention (International law)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781317112747
1317112741