Note: There are no lecture notes for Sessions 11 and 23.
SES # | TOPICS | LECTURE NOTES |
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I. Introduction | ||
1 | Introduction | Course Overview (PDF) |
II. 34 Hypotheses on the Causes of War | ||
2–3 | 8 Hypotheses on Military Factors as Causes of War | Military Power and the Causes of War: 8 Hypotheses (PDF) |
4–7 | Misperception and War; Religion and War |
“What Were They Thinking?” National Misperceptions as Causes of War (PDF) |
8–9 | More Causes of War and Peace | More Causes of War and Peace (PDF) |
III. Cases: Wars and Crises | ||
10 | The Seven Years War |
The Anglo-French Seven Years’ War, 1756–1763: An Inadvertant War? An Avoidable War? (PDF) |
12–14 | World War I |
The Austro-Prussian War of 1866 / The Franco-Prussian War of 1870 (PDF) |
15–18 | World War II | |
19 |
Interlude: Hypotheses on Escalation and Limitation of War Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Strategy, Other Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Causes of War. |
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20–21 | The Cold War, Korea and Indochina | The Cold War (1947–1989) and Korea (1950–1953) (PDF) |
22 | The Israel-Arab Conflict | Causes of / Solutions to the Israel-Arab Conflict (PDF) |
24 | The Peloponnesian War | The Peloponnesian War, 460–404 BCE (PDF) |
IV. The Future of War | ||
25–26 |
Testing & Applying Theories of War Causation The Future of War Solutions to War |
The Future of War and Solutions to War (PDF) |