A nation must think before it acts.
On the Origins of War and the Preservation of Peace. By Donald Kagan. (New York: Doubleday, 1995).
War and Reason-Domestic and International Imperatives. By Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and David Lalman. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992).
The War Puzzle. By John A. Vasquez. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993).