Article: On the Causes of War.

John A. Vasquez, Vanderbilt University

Hidemi Suganami has written a complex philosophical treatment of the idea of causation as it relates to war that is more subtle than it initially seems. He provides a new way of examining the past to learn how wars could have been avoided and why they were brought about. Although Suganami gives full treatment to the standard ways in which social scientists look at the idea of cause (with chapters on the questions to be asked, prerequisites, correlates, causation, and origins), in the end he makes the case for explaining the causes of war in terms of who is responsible for bringing about the war. This has important legal ...

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