American politics seems like a war between irreconcilable forces and so we may suspect that political life as such is war. This book confronts these suspicions

A systematic study of the significant influence that domestic political competition can have on the international conflict behavior of states.

This is a philosophical treatise on war written by an Oxford grad who served in Afghanistan.

Introduction: Trust and Polarization -- Must Politics Be War Here and Now? -- Social and Political Trust: Concepts, Causes, and Consequences -- Civil Society an