A Violent Peace offers a radical account of the United States' transformation into a total-war state. As the Cold War turned hot in the Pacific, antifascist cri

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David R. Mares argues that the key factors influencing political leaders in all types of polities are the costs to their constituencies of using force and wheth

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How can a just peace be built in sites of genocide, massive civil war, dictatorship, terrorism, and poverty? In Strategies of Peace, the first volume in the Stu