Sara McLaughlin Mitchell is the Professor and Collegiate Scholar of Political Science at the University of Iowa.

John A. Vasquez is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Preface to the Revised Third Edition
Preface to the Third Edition
Introduction
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and John A. Vasquez
PART I: FACTORS THAT BRING ABOUT WAR
1 Territory and Contentious Issues
Paul R. Hensel and Hein Goemans
2 Dyadic Power Distributions and War
Daniel S. Morey and Kelly M. Kadera
3 Deterrence Theory and Alliance Politics
Michael R. Kenwick and Roseanne W. McManus
4 Arms Races
Susan G. Sample
5 Rivalries and Crisis Bargaining
Seden Akcinaroglu and Elizabeth Radziszewski
6 Nuclear Weapons
Matthew Fuhrmann
7 Outcomes and Consequences of War
Stephen L. Quackenbush
PART II: FACTORS THAT PROMOTE PEACE
8 The Liberal Peace
Michael Mousseau
9 The Territorial Peace: Current and Future Research
Douglas M. Gibler and Steven V. Miller
10 The Peace Puzzle: Understanding Transitions to Peace
Andrew P. Owsiak, Paul F. Diehl, and Gary Goertz
11 Conflict Management of Territorial and Maritime Disputes
Emilia Justyna Powell and Krista E. Wiegand
PART III: EMERGING TRENDS IN INTERSTATE WAR RESEARCH
12 Cyber War
Brandon Valeriano, Ryan C. Maness, and Benjamin Jensen
13 The Environment and Conflict: Water Wars
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and Yufan Yang
14 Leaders and War
Scott Wolford
15 War Financing and Foreign Debt
Rosella Cappella Zielinski and Paul Poast
16 Trends in Interstate Conflict
Bear F. Braumoeller
PART IV: CONCLUSION
17 Some Brief Observations on the Contemporary Study of War
William R. Thompson
18 War and the Orient Express
Andrew P. Owsiak and Douglas B. Atkinson
19 What Do We Know about War?
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and John A. Vasquez
20 Afterword: The Russia-Ukraine War--What Can Quantitative Conflict Research Tell Us?
Sara McLaughlin Mitchell and John A. Vasquez
References
Name Index
Subject Index
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