The authors of this ambitious book address a fundamental political question: why are leaders who produce peace and prosperity turned out of office while those who preside over corruption, war, and misery endure?

A study of wars and what causes them to expand

This book focuses on changes in the international system -- what has caused them, where they will stop, and perhaps most important, where they will take us.

Using a mediated stimulus-response model for basic organization, fourteen hypotheses dealing with dyadic and mediated conflict behavior in an international crisis are presented.