Why do democracies win wars? This is a critical question in the study of international relations, as a traditional view--expressed most famously by Alexis de To

This lively survey of the history of conflict between democracies reveals a remarkable--and tremendously important--finding: fully democratic nations have never

Surveys the bureaucratic mistakes--including poor weapons and strategic blunders--that marked America's entry into World War II, showing how these errors were o

An analysis of.how 20th Century wars have been represented and misrepresented to Western publics.

The book turns the 'democratic peace' theme on its head: rather than investigating the reasons for the supposed pacifism of democracies, it looks for the causes