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03500aam a2200421 i 4500 001 7DCC6520FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 003 SILO 005 20191105010136 008 190404t20192019nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019003397 020 $a 0190849533 020 $a 9780190849535 035 $a (OCoLC)1060600154 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d YDX $d EAU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a JZ6385 $b .B73 2019 082 00 $a 303.6/6 $2 23 084 $a POL011010 $a POL011010 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Braumoeller, Bear F. $e author. 245 10 $a Only the dead : $b the persistence of war in the modern age / $c Bear F. Braumoeller. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Oxford University Press, $c [2019] 300 $a xxiii, 314 pages : $b illustrations (some color) ; $c 25 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index. 505 2 $a I. Only the Dead -- II. Reasons for Skepticism -- III. What the Data Tells Us -- IV. Making Sense of the Data -- V. Conclusion. 520 $a " The idea that war is going out of style has become the conventional wisdom in recent years. But in Only the Dead, award-winning author Bear Braumoeller demonstrates that it shouldn't have. With a rare combination of historical expertise, statistical acumen, and accessible prose, Braumoeller shows that the evidence simply doesn't support the decline-of-war thesis propounded by scholars like Steven Pinker. He argues that the key to understanding trends in warfare lies, not in the spread of humanitarian values, but rather in the formation of international orders-sets of expectations about behavior that allow countries to work in concert, as they did in the Concert of Europe and have done in the postwar Western liberal order. With a nod toward the American sociologist Charles Tilly, who argued that "war made the state and the state made war," Braumoeller argues that the same is true of international orders: while they reduce conflict within their borders, they can also clash violently with one another, as the Western and communist orders did throughout the Cold War. Both highly readable and rigorous, Only the Dead offers a realistic assessment of humanity's quest to abolish warfare. While pessimists have been too quick to discount the successes of our attempts to reduce international conflict, optimists are prone to put too much faith in human nature. Reality lies somewhere in between: While the aspirations of humankind to govern its behavior with reason and justice have had shocking success in moderating the harsh dictates of realpolitik, the institutions that we have created to prevent war are unlikely to achieve anything like total success-as evidenced by the multitude of conflicts in recent decades. As the old adage advises us, only the dead have seen the end of war. "-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a War $x Causes. 650 0 $a War $x Prevention. 650 0 $a International organization. 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / Diplomacy. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a International organization. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00977038 650 7 $a War $x Causes. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170331 650 7 $a War $x Prevention. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01170361 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20210721014813.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20201103022934.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7DCC6520FF9A11E9A2D37E2597128E48 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search