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Roots of war : wanting power, seeing threat, justifying force / David G. Winter.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Winter, David G., author.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
War--Causes.
War.
Power (Social sciences).
Threats.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (441 pages)
Place of Publication:
Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Summary:
"Roots of War presents systematic archival, experimental, and survey research on three psychological factors leading to war--desire for power, exaggerated perception of threat, and justification for force -- set in comparative historical accounts of the unexpected 1914 escalation to world war and the peacefully - resolved 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis."--Provided by publisher.
Contents:
A tale of two crises
Reasons, motives, and causes
On power
Power motivation in war and peace
Perceiving and misperceiving power
Justifying power and war
Toward peace II : taming power drives
Toward peace II : taming societies, perceptions, and justifications.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBC, viewed February 15, 2018).
ISBN:
0-19-935577-0
0-19-935576-2

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