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17.423 Causes and Prevention of War, Spring 2001

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Title: 17.423 Causes and Prevention of War, Spring 2001
Author: Van Evera, Stephen
Issue Date: 2001-06
Abstract: Examines the causes of war, with a focus on practical measures to prevent and control war. Topics covered include: causes and consequences of national misperception; military strategy and policy as cause of war; US foreign policy as a cause of war and peace; and the likelihood and possible nature of another world war. Historical cases are examined, including World War I, World War II, Korea, and Indochina. From the course home page: Course Description Course topic: the causes and prevention of interstate war. Course goal: discovering and assessing means to prevent or control war. Hence we focus on manipulable or controllable war-causes. Covered topics include the dilemmas, misperceptions, crimes and blunders that caused wars of the past; the origins of these and other war-causes; the possible causes of wars of the future; and possible means to prevent such wars, including short-term policy steps and more utopian schemes. Covered historical cases include World War I, World War II, Korea, Indochina, and the Peloponnesian, Crimean and Seven Years wars.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/35803
Other Identifiers: 17.423-Spring2001
Other Identifiers: 17.423
IMSCP-MD5-2f465dac95341a49f8b652b3cccb8538
Keywords: war, foreign policy, World War I, World War II, Indochina, Peloponnesian War, Crimean War, Seven Years War, conflict resolution, War, Causes of, 451001, Political Science and Government, General

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