War in the Modern Great Power System: 1495-1975 - Paperback

by Jack S. Levy (Author)

The apparently accelerating arms race between the United States and the Soviet Union and the precarious political conditions existing in many parts of the world have given rise to new anxiety about the possibility of military confrontation between the superpowers. Despite the fateful nature of the risk, we have little knowledge, as Jack S. Levy has pointed out, "of the conditions, processes, and events which might combine to generate such a calamity. "No empirically confirmed theory of the cause

Author Biography

Jack S. Levy, assistant professor of government at the University of Texas at Austin, has contributed studies of international war to International Studies Quarterly, American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Conflict Resolution.