Military buildups: Arming and war, in John A. Vasquez (ed.) What do we Know about War – Arms Races Conflict Analysis and Database

Tags: ARMS RACES, CONFLICT PROCESSES ANALYSIS, MUTUAL MILITARY BUILDUPS, NUCLEAR WEAPONS, QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS

Literature Groups: CONFLICT PROCESSES ANALYSIS, QUANTITATIVE METHODS, SUSAN SAMPLE CORPUS

Author: Susan G. Sample

Publisher/Publication: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

DOI/ISBN: 153814008X

Abstract: A key work in the corpus of Susan Sample, the focus here is in expanding their prior analysis. Here she finds that the positive association of arms races with war-onset holds for the pre-1945 period, but not for the post-1945 period. She attributes this to the presence of nuclear weapons.