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Lec #Topics
I. Introduction: Framing, Testing and Using Theories
1Hypotheses, Laws, Theories and Case Studies
II. Hypotheses on the Causes of War
2-3Propositional Inventories on War, and Military Causes of War
4Hypotheses on Systemic Power Factors, and Hypotheses on National Misperception
5Hypotheses on Domestic Political and Social Structure: Democracy, Revolution, Culture, Gender, Social Equality and Social Justice, Minority Rights and Human Rights, Prosperity, Economic Interdependence, Capitalism, Communism, Imperial Decline and Collapse, Cultural Learning, Religion as a Cause of Peace and War
6Hypotheses on Strategic Interaction; Applications of Theories of War to explain History; Causes of Civil War; Case Study Method
III. Case Studies
7The Seven Years War and the Korean War
8-9World War I
10The Second World War in Europe
11The Pacific War
12The Arab-Israeli War 1967; The 1991 Persian Gulf War; The Peloponnesian War
IV. The Future of War
13The Future of War: Using Theory to Predict and Prescribe; The Field Agenda in War Studies

 








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