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1. 1. Only The Dead

   The Persistence of War in the Modern Age

   

   A data-driven rebuttal to the notion that war is fading, arguing that conflict persists because states’ willingness and capacity to fight endure. Drawing on centuries of evidence, it shows that apparent declines often reflect fewer opportunities and shifting international orders that can reduce violence within their cores while externalizing it to the periphery. The argument warns that peace is fragile and cyclical rather than inevitable, urging sober policy grounded in deterrence, institutional management, and attention to the conditions that make war more or less likely.

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2. 2. The Great Powers And The International System

   Systemic Theory in Empirical Perspective

   

   Develops a theory in which great-power behavior and international structure coevolve: states’ actions create systemic order, and that order in turn shapes state choices. Challenging purely anarchic or solely domestic explanations, it integrates agent-level decision making with system-level dynamics. Through formal models and quantitative evidence from the 19th and 20th centuries, it shows how shifts in power, interests, and shared expectations produce recurring patterns of hierarchy, cooperation, and conflict, illuminating why periods of order emerge and decay and when major wars become more or less likely.

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