Spinoff Crises
Spinoff crises are secondary confrontations arising from a primary conflict. They are outgrowth of wars in which the initiator is or expects to be a belligerent. Such crises arise when states take actions to protect their interests in these primary confli
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40th Anniversary Revised Edition In honor of Joseph Lebow who designed the original cover
Between Peace and War: 40th Anniversary Revised Edition
Richard Ned Lebow
Between Peace and War: 40th Anniversary Revised Edition
Richard Ned Lebow War Studies King’s College London London, UK
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Preface to the First Edition
As a graduate student at Yale in the early 1960s I attempted to pursue my interest in both history and politics. This proved very difficult to do even in the international relations program where students were required to take courses in both disciplines. The history and political science departments were jealous of their autonomy, critical of each other’s philosophical orientation, and hostile toward any effort to bridge the intellectual gap separating them. My single-minded and obviously naive pursuit of this goal antagonized influential faculty in both departments and was an underlying cause of my expulsion from the graduate school. Some of my classroom experiences at Yale are amusing in retrospect. In my second year I attended a comparative politics seminar taught by a prominent political scientist who introduced us to the latest paradigms for analyzing modernization or political development. These schemes were usually architectonic in structure, vaguely empirical, and promised insight into the political processes of societies as diverse as Denmark, Dhofar, and Dahomey. We students,
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