War has traditionally been studied as a problem deriving from the relations between states. Strategic doctrines, arms control agreements, and the foundation of

Exposes the deep logical contradictions of Realist political thought and counters it with a new, more robust theory of war

A path-breaking study of the transformative power of war and its profound influence on 14th-century Japan

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States make war, but war also makes states. As Publishers Weekly notes, “Porter, a political scientist at Brigham Young University, demonstrates that wars hav