2009 Why Nations go to War Review Why do notions go to war? What is the reasoning behind their actions? John G. Stoessinger analyzes these questions in his book‚ Why Nations go to War. Stoessinger believes that to understand the war‚ you must understand the leaders of the war. When you understand the leaders you understand their actions and when you understand their actions‚ you have the answer to the question‚ "Why do nations go to war?" In this review paper I am going to review each chapter
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Why go to university? People attend college for various reasons. Some people consider college as a challenge and others take it as a new experience. In my opinion‚ I think that people attend college to increase knowledge‚ meet new people and develop a career. Studying at a college can benefit a person greatly since it augments a person’s knowledge‚ aids in developing a career and gives a chance to meet new people of different backgrounds. Knowledge is such a powerful tool that possessing it can
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In Why Nations Go To War by John G. Stoessinger he goes into detail in chapters seven to ten on the sixty year war‚ Saddam Hussein’s wars‚ “America and the World of Islam” and “Why Nations Go to War”. I always enjoy reading about the wars and conflicts that happen in our world but you usually hear about the battles and main headlines on the news so it is always very interesting to learn more about what actually happened. You always learn something new when you are reading which I like when books
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Anderson‚ (1989)‚ wanted to understand the psycho physiological effect of heat on occurrence of human violence. They study the effects of temperature in several different areas of aggression (they look at aggressive crime rates associated with temperature in different regions‚ crime rates in various time periods‚ and they study temperature measured with target behaviors). Anderson studies used Brearley’s data of average homicide rates across the 1918- 1929 time span for each of the northern most
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and more difficult to deal with as the north continued to produce a large amount of abolitionists and the south never strayed from slavery. The south felt like the north was taking advantage of them in various ways. As the north and the south began to go their own ways they began to differentiate there became apparent disagreements in every aspect of a civilization. Politically‚ the south felt cornered. They felt that there was only one option that could free the south from the biased compromises and
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WHY NATIONS GO TO WAR There are often people who ask the big question‚ “Why do nations feel the need to go to war?” One of the main reasons for this question comes from the loss of life that comes with it. However‚ on an opinionated theory I have concluded that a larger portion of why a nation decides to go to war would be to expand their territory. They could even be trying to gain freedom for their nation. Many times nations use scarcity of resources in their own country to justify warring with
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WHY NATIONS GO TO WAR By John G. Stoessinger BOOK REVIEW: WHY NATIONS GO TO WAR is a unique book and a product of reflection by author‚ Dr. John G. Stoessinger. First published in 1978‚ its Eleventh Edition with additions came out in 2010. It is built around ten case studies‚ culminating in the new wars that ushered in the twenty-first century: Iraq‚ Afghanistan‚ and the wars between Arabs and Israelis in Gaza and in Lebanon. In the book he analyses the most important military conflicts
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Why Nations Go To War In John Stoessinger’s work on “Why Nations go to War” he examines ten wars that have occurred since 1914 and the one currently taking place today. These wars include World War One‚ World War Two‚ Korean War‚ Vietnam War‚ Yugoslavian War‚ Indo-Pakistani War‚ Arab-Israel War‚ Iran-Iraq and Iraq-Kuwait War‚ War on Terror‚ and Wars in Rwanda and Darfur. Each of these wars have many things in common‚ but the one thing that sticks out above many of the other statistics and reasons
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person wouldn’t spend all that money if they didn’t think it was valuable. It’s also hard work as it takes commitment to attend classes and countless hours will be spent studying. However‚ millions of people choose to attend. Why do they go to college? There are several reasons why people choose to attend college. One of them is the opportunity given with a college education. By acquiring a college degree of some sort‚ people open many new doors of opportunities than those without a college education
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In her book did Marco Polo Go to China? (first published by Secker & Warburg‚ London‚ in 1995)‚ Dr Frances Wood claims that Marco did not go to China and that he probably never traveled much further than the family ’s trading post on the Black Sea and in Constantinople. (Rachewiltz) There are many parts of his accounts open to question and criticism. However‚ it was likely that he did get to China. As to whether he personally witnessed all that he said‚ or was favored in the court of Kublai Khan
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