1. Democracy and War -- 2. Two Opposing Views -- 3. A Recent Example and the Need to Ask New Questions -- 4. Theory Formation and Empirical Knowledge -- 5. The Software of Defence Conversion - a Paradigm Shift? -- 6. Support for War: the Gulf War, 1990-91 -- 7. Innocence Lost: the Yugoslav Conflict -- 8. 'War without Bloodshed': the Conflict over Kosovo -- 9. The Casualties Hypothesis -- 10. Conclusions