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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 October 2009
      09 September 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511521805
      9780521444620
      9780521558686
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511521805
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.647kg, 356 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.51kg, 356 Pages
      • Series:
      Cambridge Studies in International Relations (29)
      Subjects:
      Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in International Relations (29)
    Subjects:
    Politics and International Relations, International Relations and International Organisations
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    Studies of the causes of wars generally presuppose a 'realist' account of motivation: when statesmen choose to wage war, they do so for purposes of self-preservation or self-aggrandizement. In this book, however, David Welch argues that humans are motivated by normative concerns, the pursuit of which may result in behaviour inconsistent with self-interest. He examines the effect of one particular type of normative motivation - the justice motive - in the outbreak of five Great Power wars: the Crimean war, the Franco-Prussian war, World War I, World War II, and the Falklands war. Realist theory would suggest that these wars would be among the least likely to be influenced by considerations other than power and interest, but the author demonstrates that the justice motive played an important role in the genesis of war, and that its neglect by theorists of international politics is a major oversight.

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    ‘… an important contribution to the literatures on realism, the causes of war, and international ethics. Not only are its findings impressive in their own right, but the concept of the justice motive suggests a possible synthesis of other important threads of research on the causes of collective violence.’

    Source: Mershon International Studies Review

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