Political Science Quarterly: Spring 2023: Why We Don’t Fight: A Review Article

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Volume 138 - Number 1 - Spring 2023

pp. 87-94

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Why We Don’t Fight: A Review Article
Lionel Beehner reviews Christopher Blattman’s Why We Fight: The Roots of War and the Paths to Peace. He applauds the author for breaking down the various schools of thought in the international relations discipline explaining war onset but argues the author’s analysis neglects important qualitative factors, as well as recent technological innovations, to explain “why we fight.”

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