Dale C. Copeland is Associate Professor of International Relations in the Woodrow Wilson Department of Politics at the University of Virginia. His articles have appeared in major journals in international relations and security studies and have been anthologized in three collections.
One of the most important questions of human existence is what drives nations to warespecially massive, system-threatening war. Much military history focuses on the who, when, and where of war. In this riveting book, Dale C. Copeland brings attention to bear on why governments make decisions that lead to, sustain, and intensify conflicts.
Copeland presents detailed historical narratives of several twentieth-century cases, including World War I, World War II, and the Cold War. He highlights instigating factors that transcend individual personalities, styles of government, geography, and historical context to reveal remarkable consistency across several major wars usually considered dissimilar. The result is a series of challenges to established interpretive positions and provocative new readings of the causes of conflict.
Classical realists and neorealists claim that dominant powers initiate war. Hegemonic stability realists believe that wars are most often started by rising states. Copeland offers an approach stronger in explanatory power and predictive capacity than these three brands of realism: he examines not only the power resources but the shifting power differentials of states. He specifies more precisely the conditions under which state decline leads to conflict, drawing empirical support from the critical cases of the twentieth century as well as major wars spanning from ancient Greece to the Napoleonic Wars.
發表於2024-12-23
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什麼是戰爭?就實質而言,戰爭是矛盾鬥爭錶現的最高形式與暴力手段。更準確一點的定義則是,戰爭是由超過一個的團體或組織,由於共同關心的權利或利益問題,在正常的非暴力手段不能夠達成和解或平衡的狀況下,而展開的具有一定規模的初期以暴力活動為開端,以一方或幾方的主動...
評分在《大戰的起源》開篇的理論部分,科普蘭以雄渾的氣魄對當時現實主義國際政治理論中流行的三種支流——以漢斯·摩根索為代錶的古典現實主義、以肯尼思·沃爾茲為代錶的結構現實主義、和以羅伯特·吉爾平和羅伯特·基歐漢為代錶的霸權穩定論——展開瞭密不透風的猛烈批評,每一...
評分什麼是戰爭?就實質而言,戰爭是矛盾鬥爭錶現的最高形式與暴力手段。更準確一點的定義則是,戰爭是由超過一個的團體或組織,由於共同關心的權利或利益問題,在正常的非暴力手段不能夠達成和解或平衡的狀況下,而展開的具有一定規模的初期以暴力活動為開端,以一方或幾方的主動...
評分 評分寫幾點可能的問題: 1. 將危機視作大戰可能性增強的原因,在一定程度上解構瞭大戰起源這個問題。危機是超級大國對另一方的政策相對成功的預期引起的反嚮力量波動造成的結果,而戰爭又是危機失控後造成的結果。本質上是兩個問題。另外,這中方式有把大戰的起源和危機的起源混淆...
圖書標籤: 國際政治 安全保障 政治 戰爭
此書應該加上powell的書一起讀,就很好瞭。按照國內國關的生産方式應該就是篇一流水準的論文瞭
評分此書應該加上powell的書一起讀,就很好瞭。按照國內國關的生産方式應該就是篇一流水準的論文瞭
評分在復旦的時候,很多年前讀過此書。後來在看唐世平老師的著作的footnote的時候,提示過這部作品是典型的進攻性現實主義的研究著作。盡管作者本身似乎強調自己不過是現實主義者,一位結構性的現實主義者。但是何等的結構主義,都需要微觀基礎作為自己理論的基礎。這一點不僅是經濟學研究的一般規範,也是政治學者們所應當遵循的基本準則。所以,就權力變動産生的戰爭危險的高低而言,自然要得齣這一推論,必然依據國傢的決策者之間是基於這一判斷采取逆嚮歸納法得齣何時準備國際衝突的。但是,這種推論如果需要自洽,同樣也必須證明,這種推論的前提,應當是有所依據的。然而,現在看來,進攻性現實主義的前提往往需要為自己辯護的地方比最初他們想象的要多很多。這部作品的案例部分多是削足適履。理論部分認真看看就好。
評分此書應該加上powell的書一起讀,就很好瞭。按照國內國關的生産方式應該就是篇一流水準的論文瞭
評分此書應該加上powell的書一起讀,就很好瞭。按照國內國關的生産方式應該就是篇一流水準的論文瞭
The Origins of Major War 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載