How do enduring rivalries between states affect international relations?

This book provides the first detailed analysis of international rivalries, the long-standing and often violent confrontations between the same pairs of states.

International conflict is neither random nor inexplicable. It is highly structured by antagonisms between a relatively small set of states that regard each othe

Introducing students to the scientific study of peace and war, this exciting new reader provides an overview of important and current scholarship in this dynami

This volume, first published in 2005, analyses the persistence of the India-Pakistan rivalry since 1947.