That one can pose a rational model that predicts preventive war does not make it the right model or necessarily do justice to the facts of the case.

by Alexandre Debs & Nuno P. Monteiro | 2013-08-06 | Featured, Security, Symposia, Why did the US invade Iraq? | 2 Comments
The effects of U.S. power preponderance, combined with 9/11, increased the likelihood of a preventive war against Iraq.
by David A. Lake | 2013-07-31 | Featured, Security, Symposia, Why did the US invade Iraq? | 6 Comments
That one can pose a rational model that predicts preventive war does not make it the right model or necessarily do justice to the facts of the case.
Three scholars debate whether it makes sense to see the Iraq War as the result of rational calculations by the Bush administration.
by David A. Lake | Jul 31, 2013 | Featured, Security, Symposia, Why did the US invade Iraq?
That one can pose a rational model that predicts preventive war does not make it the right model or necessarily do justice to the facts of the case.
by Alexandre Debs & Nuno P. Monteiro | Jul 30, 2013 | Featured, Security, Symposia, Why did the US invade Iraq?
Editor's Note: This is a guest post by Alexandre Debs and Nuno P. Monteiro, both of Yale University. In it, they discuss the causes of the Iraq War, a subject of some recent discussion at The Duck of Minerva. This post discusses their forthcoming International Organization article, which is now available as an "online first" piece and will be free to download for the next two weeks. Tomorrow we will run a response by David Lake [now available here]. In a forthcoming article in International Organization, “Known Unknowns: Power Shifts, Uncertainty, and War,” we introduce a...